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Hattie Zhou: Lottery Tickets and Algorithmic Reasoning in LLMs

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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In-Context Learning and Gradient Decading

There is a cool natural link there. Another series of papers that I found kind of neat recently has been the ones that are trying to establish this relationship between in-context learning and gradient descent. In context learning, it feels like, well, literally, you're not updating the weights of your pre-trained model anymore. But some of these works did this really interesting set of derivations to look at like a dual form between gradient descent and then linear self-attention. And they understand in context learning as it's kind of implicit fine-tuning where the transformer attention is like doing a meta optimization. Then in its forward pass, it basically is implementing gradient descent.

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