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|                 <h1><a href="https://nn.labml.ai/transformers/switch/index.html">Switch Transformer</a></h1>
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| <p>This is a miniature <a href="https://pytorch.org">PyTorch</a> implementation of the paper
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| <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03961">Switch Transformers: Scaling to Trillion Parameter Models with Simple and Efficient Sparsity</a>.
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| Our implementation only has a few million parameters and doesn’t do model parallel distributed training.
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| It does single GPU training, but we implement the concept of switching as described in the paper.</p>
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| <p>The Switch Transformer uses different parameters for each token by switching among parameters,
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| based on the token. So only a fraction of parameters is chosen for each token, so you
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| <p>The switching happens at the Position-wise Feedforward network (FFN) of each transformer block.
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| Position-wise feedforward network is a two sequentially fully connected layers.
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| In a distributed setup you would have each FFN (each very large) on a different device.</p>
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