CItruS: Chunked Instruction-aware State Eviction for Long Sequence Modeling
<|reference_start|>CItruS: Chunked Instruction-aware State Eviction for Long Sequence Modeling: Long sequence modeling has gained broad interest as large language models (LLMs) continue to advance. Recent research has identified that a large portion of hidden states within the key-value caches of Transformer models can be discarded (also termed evicted) without affecting the perplexity performance in generating long sequences. However, we show that these methods, despite preserving perplexity performance, often drop information that is important for solving downstream tasks, a problem which we call information neglect. To address this issue, we introduce Chunked Instruction-aware State Eviction (CItruS), a novel modeling technique that integrates the attention preferences useful for a downstream task into the eviction process of hidden states. In addition, we design a method for chunked sequence processing to further improve efficiency. Our training-free method exhibits superior performance on long sequence comprehension and retrieval tasks over several strong baselines under the same memory budget, while preserving language modeling perplexity. The code and data have been released at https://github.com/ybai-nlp/CItruS.<|reference_end|>
@article{bai2024citrus:,
    title={CItruS: Chunked Instruction-aware State Eviction for Long Sequence
  Modeling},
    author={Yu Bai, Xiyuan Zou, Heyan Huang, Sanxing Chen, Marc-Antoine Rondeau,
  Yang Gao, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.12018},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2406.12018},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}