Token Statistics Transformer: Linear-Time Attention via Variational Rate
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Token Statistics Transformer: Linear-Time Attention via Variational Rate
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The attention operator is arguably the key distinguishing factor of transformer architectures, which have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on a variety of tasks. However, transformer attention operators often impose a significant computational burden, with the computational complexity scaling quadratically with the number of tokens. In this work, we propose a novel …