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Compressed Memory

5 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Jack W. Rae et al. in Compressive Transformers for Long-Range Sequence Modelling

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Compressed Memory is a secondary FIFO memory component proposed as part of the Compressive Transformer model. The Compressive Transformer keeps a fine-grained memory of past activations, which are then compressed into coarser compressed memories.

For choices of compression functions f_c the authors consider (1) max/mean pooling, where the kernel and stride is set to the compression rate c; (2) 1D convolution also with kernel & stride set to c; (3) dilated convolutions; (4) most-used where the memories are sorted by their average attention (usage) and the most-used are preserved.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

6 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

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GPU1
Language Modelling1
Semantic Segmentation1
Sentence1
Video Object Segmentation1
Video Semantic Segmentation1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Compressed Memory: 2019 to 2025, peak 1 1 0 2019: 1 paper 2019 2020: 0 papers 2020 2021: 1 paper 2021 2022: 0 papers 2022 2023: 1 paper 2023 2024: 1 paper 2024 2025: 1 paper 2025
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