Writing in the Margins

6 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 19, 2024 by Umar Jamil · across every show →

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Sep 19, 2024
Assertion Supported
Writing in the Margins requires inference engine modifications but zero fine-tuning
“We are not doing any change to the model architecture, so you don't have to fine-tune anything, you don't have to change anything, like the can you use this stuff with, like, a Lank pane? No, because it requires a modification on how the inference engine is us…”
Umar Jamil Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 26:20 [Paper Club] Writing in the Margins: Chunked Prefill KV Caching for Long Context Retrieval
Sep 19, 2024 bullish
Insight
Jamil: Writing in the Margins avoids re-prefilling tokens, halving compute cost
“Again, to the language model to generate the answer, and it would cost you another million, because the model has to reprocess this prefilling again of one million tokens, so it would cost you two million tokens, but with writing in the margins, it would cost …”
Umar Jamil Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 16:43 [Paper Club] Writing in the Margins: Chunked Prefill KV Caching for Long Context Retrieval
Sep 19, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Jamil: 'Writing in the Margins' works on any transformer without fine-tuning
“So it can be used with any transformer model without fine-tuning, just by doing it, just by doing this inference differently.”
Umar Jamil Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 13:32 [Paper Club] Writing in the Margins: Chunked Prefill KV Caching for Long Context Retrieval
Sep 19, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Jamil: Ablations Show Supplying Both Context and Margins Outperforms Either Alone
“And we also prove in the ablation studies that actually it's always convenient to send the context plus the margins, never just the margins. So you can see here, this ablation contest compression. So if you only send the margins or only the context, it's alway…”
Umar Jamil Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 46:09 [Paper Club] Writing in the Margins: Chunked Prefill KV Caching for Long Context Retrieval
Sep 19, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Jamil: Smaller models gain more improvement from Writing in the Margins
“As you can see, for example smaller models have a better more more improvement.”
Umar Jamil Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 14:20 [Paper Club] Writing in the Margins: Chunked Prefill KV Caching for Long Context Retrieval
Sep 19, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Jamil: Writing in the Margins solves the lost-in-the-middle problem
“It improves the ability of any language model to extract relevant information, so solving the lost in the middle problem”
Umar Jamil Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 22:54 [Paper Club] Writing in the Margins: Chunked Prefill KV Caching for Long Context Retrieval
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