luffycodes/parallel-roberta-large

Model weights for Parallel Roberta-Large model

We provide the weights for the Parallel Attention and Feedforward design (PAF) for RoBERTa-Large.

To use this model, use the following paf_modeling_roberta.py file.

Here is how to use this model to get the features of a given text in PyTorch

# use paf_modeling_roberta.py instead of modeling_roberta
from paf_modeling_roberta import RobertaModel
from transformers import RobertaTokenizer

model = RobertaModel.from_pretrained('luffycodes/parallel-roberta-large')
tokenizer = RobertaTokenizer.from_pretrained('roberta-large')
text = "Replace me by any text you'd like."
encoded_input = tokenizer(text, return_tensors='pt')
output = model(**encoded_input)

Efficient GPU implementation

gpu_paf_modeling_roberta.py provides an efficient gpu implementation of PAF design for pytorch.

It clubs the computation of key, query, value, and first feedforward network sub-layer(intermediate) computation into one.

self.kqv_ffn1.weight.data = torch.cat((attention.self.key.weight.data, attention.self.query.weight.data,
                                               attention.self.value.weight.data,
                                               intermediate.dense.weight.data))

However, I could not efficiently optimize the second feedforward network sub-layer computation to run in parallel.

What is Parallel Attention and Feed-Forward Design?

On the left is the standard Series Attention and Feed-Forward Net Design (SAF) for transformers models. On the right is the Parallel Attention and Feed-Forward Net Design (PAF) used in transformer models like PaLM (Chowdhery et al., 2022) and Mesh-Transformers (Wang, 2021)

Evaluation results of PAF-RoBERTa-Large

When fine-tuned on downstream tasks, this model achieves the following results:

Glue test results:

Task	MNLI	QQP	QNLI	SST-2	CoLA	STS-B	MRPC	RTE
	89.3	91.7	94.3	96.2	64.0	91.0	90.4	80.1

If you use this work, please cite: Investigating the Role of Feed-Forward Networks in Transformers Using Parallel Attention and Feed-Forward Net Design: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13297

@misc{sonkar2023investigating,
      title={Investigating the Role of Feed-Forward Networks in Transformers Using Parallel Attention and Feed-Forward Net Design}, 
      author={Shashank Sonkar and Richard G. Baraniuk},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2305.13297},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}