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possibly useful materials for learning RWKV language model

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Materials and tutorials specific to the RWKV language model, which merges RNN benefits with transformer-like performance.

Good fit when

  • - When you want to understand how an RNN can perform like a transformer while maintaining parallelizability.
  • - If your project requires efficient handling of long sequences without losing interpretability or trainability.

Avoid when

  • - When your focus is on standard transformers that don't require the combination of RNN benefits with modern transformer designs.
  • - If you need models that perform exceptionally well in tasks strictly dependent on attention mechanisms like those used in Vision Transformers.
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Materials and tutorials focused on understanding the RWVK language model which aims to combine the benefits of RNNs with transformer-like performance.

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RWKV-howto

possibly useful materials and tutorial for learning RWKV.

RWKV: Parallelizable RNN with Transformer-level LLM Performance.

Relevant Papers

  • :star2:(2023-05) RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era arxiv

  • (2023-03) Resurrecting Recurrent Neural Networks for Long Sequences arxiv

  • (2023-02) SpikeGPT: Generative Pre-trained Language Model with Spiking Neural Networks arxiv

  • (2022-08) Simplified State Space Layers for Sequence Modeling ICLR2023

  • :star2:(2021-05) An Attention Free Transformer arxiv

  • (2021-10) Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces ICLR2022

  • (2020-08) Transformers are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention ICML2020

  • (2018) Parallelizing Linear Recurrent Neural Nets Over Sequence Length ICLR2018

  • (2017-09) Simple Recurrent Units for Highly Parallelizable Recurrence EMNLP2017

  • (2017-10) MinimalRNN: Toward More Interpretable and Trainable Recurrent Neural Networks Neurips2017

  • (2017-06) Attention Is All You Need Neurips2017

  • (2016-11) Quasi-Recurrent Neural Networks ICLR2017

Resources

  • Introducing RWKV - An RNN with the advantages of a transformer Hugging Face

  • 有了Transformer框架后是不是RNN完全可以废弃了?知乎

  • RNN最简单有效的形式是什么?知乎

  • :star2:RWKV的RNN CNN二象性 知乎

  • RNN的隐藏层需要非线性吗?知乎

  • Google新作试图“复活”RNN:RNN能否再次辉煌? 苏剑林

  • :star2:How the RWKV language model works Johan Sokrates Wind

  • :star2:The RWKV language model: An RNN with the advantages of a transformer Johan Sokrates Wind

  • The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks Andrej Karpathy blog

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