Hungry Hungry Hippos (H3)

This repository provides the official implementation of H3 from the following paper.

Hungry Hungry Hippos: Towards Language Modeling with State Space Models
Tri Dao*, Daniel Y. Fu*, Khaled K. Saab, Armin W. Thomas, Atri Rudra, Christopher Ré
International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023. Notable top-25% (spotlight).
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14052

Code & model release

You can find model weights on the HuggingFace Hub here (under "Files and Versions" for each model):

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An example of how to load the weights is given in benchmarks/benchmark_generation.py. More examples coming soon!

Acknowledgments

Some of the files related to S4D and HiPPO initialization are adapted from the https://github.com/HazyResearch/state-spaces.

Citation

If you use this codebase, or otherwise found our work valuable, please cite:

@inproceedings{dao2023hungry,
  title={Hungry {H}ungry {H}ippos: Towards Language Modeling with State Space Models},
  author={Dao, Tri and Fu, Daniel Y. and Saab, Khaled K. and Thomas, Armin W.
  and Rudra, Atri and R{\'e}, Christopher},
  booktitle={International Conference on Learning Representations},
  year={2023}
}