Nystromformer

An implementation of the Nyströmformer: A Nyström-Based Algorithm for Approximating Self-Attention paper by Xiong et al. The self-attention mechanism that encodes the influence or dependence of other tokens on each specific token is a key component of the performance of Transformers. This uses the Nyström method to approximate standard self-attention with O(n) complexity allowing to exhibit scalability as a function of sequence length.

Installation

Run the following to install:

pip install nystromformer

Developing nystromformer

To install nystromformer, along with tools you need to develop and test, run the following in your virtualenv:

git clone https://github.com/Rishit-dagli/Nystromformer.git
# or clone your own fork

cd Nystromformer
pip install -e .[dev]

To run rank and shape tests run the following:

pytest -v --disable-warnings --cov

Usage

Nystrom Attention

import tensorflow as tf
from nystromformer import NystromAttention

attn = NystromAttention(
    dim = 512,
    dim_head = 64,
    heads = 8,
    num_landmarks = 256,    # number of landmarks
    pinv_iterations = 6,    # number of moore-penrose iterations for approximating pinverse. 6 was recommended by the paper
    residual = True         # whether to do an extra residual with the value or not. supposedly faster convergence if turned on
)

x = tf.random.normal((1, 16384, 512))
mask = tf.ones((1, 16384), dtype=tf.bool)

attn(x, mask = mask) # (1, 16384, 512)

Nystromformer

import tensorflow as tf
from nystromformer import Nystromformer

model = Nystromformer(
    dim = 512,
    dim_head = 64,
    heads = 8,
    depth = 6,
    num_landmarks = 256,
    pinv_iterations = 6
)

x = tf.random.normal((1, 16384, 512))
mask = tf.ones((1, 16384), dtype=tf.bool)

model(x, mask = mask) # (1, 16384, 512)

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Awesome! If you want to contribute to this project, you're always welcome! See Contributing Guidelines. You can also take a look at open issues for getting more information about current or upcoming tasks.

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Citation

@misc{xiong2021nystromformer,
    title   = {Nyströmformer: A Nyström-Based Algorithm for Approximating Self-Attention},
    author  = {Yunyang Xiong and Zhanpeng Zeng and Rudrasis Chakraborty and Mingxing Tan and Glenn Fung and Yin Li and Vikas Singh},
    year    = {2021},
    eprint  = {2102.03902},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    primaryClass = {cs.CL}
}

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PyTorch Implementation

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License

Copyright 2020 Rishit Dagli

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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