Fast Transformer Decoding: One Write-Head is All You Need
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Faster Transformer Decoding — One Write-Head Changes How AI Replies

Imagine your phone trying to build a sentence word by word, and having to fetch the same big chunk of info over and over — that makes replies slow. Transformers usually keep many separate parts working at once, each with its own copy of memory, which costs time and energy. The new idea is simple: let those parts read from one shared place so the model doesn’t reload the same stuff again and again. That cuts down on the heavy moving of data and makes generation much quicker on devices. Tests show this trick brings big gains in speed while using far less memory. The model still learns well because the main context is shared, and users get answers that are almost as good — little loss in quality. It…

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