Summary Transformers as Support Vector Machines arxiv.org
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The text explores the use of transformers as support vector machines in natural language processing, establishing a connection between self-attention in transformers and SVMs, discussing attention layer optimization and providing proofs for gradient descent convergence.
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- The transformer architecture has revolutionized natural language processing by using self-attention to capture complex dependencies in input sequences.
- There is a formal equivalence between the optimization geometry of self-attention and a hard-margin SVM problem.
- Overparameterization is crucial for the global convergence of gradient descent in neural networks, including transformers used as SVMs.
- The attention map in transformers acts as a feature selection mechanism, similar to sparsity and lasso regression.
- The document includes references to several papers and articles related to transformer models and support vector machines.
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Transformers can be used as support vector machines (SVMs) in natural language processing. The document establishes an equivalence between self-attention in transformers and SVMs. It discusses the optimization of the attention layer and provides proofs for gradient descent convergence and
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The excerpt discusses the use of transformers as support vector machines (SVMs) in natural language processing. It establishes a formal equivalence between self-attention in transformers and a hard-margin SVM problem. The optimization of the attention layer is discussed, along with
The document discusses the use of transformers as support vector machines (SVMs) and includes references to several papers on the topic. It provides proofs for the convergence of gradient descent and the correlation between the negative gradient of the loss function and the max-margin
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The transformer architecture has revolutionized natural language processing by using self-attention to capture complex dependencies in input sequences. This work establishes a formal equivalence between the optimization geometry of self-attention and a hard-margin SVM problem. It shows that optimizing the attention layer
For simplicity, we set z i = x i1, but it can be any other row of X i. We fix h(.) and only optimize the attention weights to avoid a degenerate case. We identify geometric conditions that guarantee convergence to the globally
The text discusses the use of transformers as support vector machines (SVMs). It introduces the optimization problem and the linear head used in the theoretical exposition. The empirical risk is minimized using combined weights or individual weights for a fixed head and decreasing loss function
The nuclear norm objective encourages a low-rank solution, making it possible to recover solutions for (Att-SVM) even when m < d. Lemma 1 confirms that any optimal solution of (Att-SVM) or (Att-SVM ?)
This excerpt discusses the global convergence of Gradient Descent (GD) in Transformers as Support Vector Machines (SVMs). It introduces conditions for global convergence and establishes properties of the optimization landscape. Assumptions B.1 and B.2 are identified
Overparameterization is crucial for the global convergence of gradient descent in neural networks, but conventional methods like the neural tangent kernel do not apply in this scenario. The benefits of overparameterization are illustrated through experiments and the norm of the solution is shown to
The excerpt discusses the convergence and global optimization of attention weights in Transformers used as Support Vector Machines (SVMs). It presents Figures 7(a)-(c) to demonstrate the probability calculations and correlation coefficients of attention weights. The section also addresses the over
The excerpt discusses the use of transformers as support vector machines (SVMs) and introduces a lemma and theorem related to SVM solutions and the convergence of the regularization path. It highlights the protective role of locally optimal solutions and the global set of optimal tokens
The document discusses the use of Transformers as Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and introduces a convex generalized SVM formulation called Gen-SVM. The authors conducted experiments using an MLP and found that the Gen-SVM equivalence showed higher predictability in scenarios with
The unconstrained softmax optimization associated with the objective h is defined. Experimental findings regarding Lemma 6 are presented, showing that the number of selected tokens grows alongside ?. The predictivity of attention SVM solutions for varying ? and different numbers of selected tokens is examined
This work introduces unique contributions in global convergence analysis, benefits of overparameterization, and the generalized SVM-equivalence. The attention map acts as a feature selection mechanism, similar to sparsity and lasso regression. The primary SVM formulation selects one token from
The results in Section 6 provide analytical formulae for the implicit bias of the attention layer under nonlinear prediction heads. Joint optimization dynamics of attention weights and prediction head h(.) can be studied as a low-rank factorization problem. Preliminary geometric characterization
This article references several papers on various topics related to transformers, including atomic decomposition, decision transformers, robust uncertainty principles, learning jigsaw puzzles in vision transformers, attention mechanisms, optimization and understanding of transformer networks, matrix rank minimization, multiscale vision transformers
PMLR, 2021. Jeff Z HaoChen et al. Shape matters: Understanding the implicit bias of the noise covariance. Ziwei Ji et al. Gradient descent follows the regularization path for general losses. Arthur Jacot et al.
This excerpt includes a list of references to various papers and articles related to the topic of Transformers as Support Vector Machines. The references cover a range of topics such as gradient descent, vision transformers, algorithmic regularization, kernel regression, shallow vision transformers, parameter
The excerpt includes citations of various research papers related to machine learning and deep learning. These papers cover topics such as attention in prompt-tuning, gradient descent, neural collapse, natural language inference, abstractive summarization, implicit bias, transfer learning,
The summary includes references to various papers and articles related to transformer models and support vector machines. The papers mentioned cover topics such as signal recovery, regression shrinkage, imbalance trouble in neural networks, language models, attention mechanisms, implicit regularization, training dynamics,
The document includes references to several papers on transformers and support vector machines. The appendix is organized into different sections, providing auxiliary lemmas, proofs for global and local convergence of gradient descent, a general regularization path analysis, the proof of a specific theorem,
The document discusses the global convergence of gradient descent in Transformers as Support Vector Machines. It includes proofs for Theorems 3, 4, 5, and 6, which demonstrate the convergence under different conditions such as equal scores, non-e
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This excerpt discusses the local convergence of gradient descent and the convergence of the regularization path for a sequence-to-sequence setting. It includes proofs for Theorem 7 and Lemma 6, and an analysis of the regularization path. The proof of Theorem
The document discusses the global regularization path and provides a proof for Theorem 2. It also provides a proof for Theorem 8, which addresses separability under mild over-parameterization. Supporting experiments are mentioned as well. The document includes proofs for
In this paper, the authors discuss the use of transformers as support vector machines (SVMs). They prove theorems related to the convergence of gradient descent and the correlation between the negative gradient of the loss function and the max-margin solution. They
The excerpt describes the local convergence of gradient descent for support vector machines (SVMs). It introduces a cone centered around the SVM solution and establishes conditions for local convergence. The gradient correlation is analyzed to bound the softmax probabilities and score gaps. The excerpt
The text discusses the use of transformers as support vector machines (SVMs). It presents mathematical equations and proofs to support the claim that transformers can be used as SVMs. The main idea is to show that for a specific choice of parameters, the
The text discusses the existence of scalar values and constants that determine the correlation and gradient descent update rule for Transformers as Support Vector Machines. It further explains the relationship between these values and the convergence of the regularization path. The proof of Lemma 6 is also
Given training labels Y, the goal is to minimize the empirical risk by predicting the first attention output in either univariate or bivariate fashion. The problem can be simplified to the Sequential Cross-Attention SVM problem. Support indices and locally-optimal indices are
The text discusses the convergence of the regularization path to locally-optimal directions in Transformers used as Support Vector Machines (SVMs). The main theorem states that for small enough values of a parameter, the regularization path converges to the optimal direction. The
We define B as the maximum gap multiplied by the maximum Lipschitz constant. We also define P ik and ? ik as certain expressions involving the prediction head h k (x ik ). Using Assumption E, we obtain score inequalities that involve the weight
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The excerpted text includes equations and corollaries related to Transformers as Support Vector Machines. The text discusses score decomposition, loss differences, regularization paths, and separability under mild over-parameterization. It presents several coroll
Claim 1 states that the matrix M? n is rank T ? 1 almost surely when d ? max(T ? 1, n). This claim is supported by the fact that the span of the vectors (z i ) n?1 i
Code is available at 5210 2 10 1 10 2 T =5 T = 10 T = 15 n =5 n = 10 n = 15 1 3 5 7 Varying