Long-context Transformers: A survey

2021

Closed access Metadata (CSL-JSON)
DOI 10.1109/dcna53427.2021.9587279
Data confidence 70 medium
How this score is calculated

It is built from checkable properties of the record itself: whether the article has a DOI, how many independent sources confirmed its data, whether the required fields are filled in, and how recent the latest confirmation is. Disagreement between sources and a missing identifier lower it. A value of 80 or above means the record was published without further checking; 60 to 79 means it is published at reduced confidence, with a manual check advisable. A record verified by an editor by hand is never pushed below 90 by a recalculation. This scores our data about the article, not the article itself.

Abstract

Current Transformer architecture falls behind in terms of the computational complexity of its attention mechanism, namely being O(N2). That problem leads to this model being unable to efficiently work with long sequences. There were a lot of attempts which tries to deal with this problem. In this paper, we considered the most up-to-date methods and how these methods compare to each other in different tasks. We address their limitations and how well they perform, and which ones are most versatile and could be used as a base for future works.