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Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers

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Re: Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers

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> In short: if you can swap in a different set of weights and use the exact same inference code for a different task, your setup is legitimate. If the inference code is inseparable from the algorithm, it's not.

I wonder why they don't just write the code themselves, so by design the focus can be on the model.

Re: Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers

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You can do that in a single matmul of course.

So can you take an arbitrary transformer and somehow turn it into a compact set of low-power fast gates by some algorithm?

I think you're misunderstanding the joke.

Re: Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

So can you take an arbitrary transformer and somehow turn it into a compact set of low-power fast gates by some algorithm?

I think you're misunderstanding the joke.

Yes joke is:

    [A B]
times

    [1]
    [1]
is

    [A+B]

Re: Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're misunderstanding the joke.

Yes joke is: [A B] times [1] [1] is [A+B]

From context then, I infer that a transformer is not comprised of matrix multiplications, because it would simply be one that adds two 10-digit numbers.
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