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RecurrentGemma: Moving Past Transformers for Efficient Open Language Models

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arxiv 2404.07839 v2 pith:FPXUUWGJ submitted 2024-04-11 cs.LG cs.AIcs.CL

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We introduce RecurrentGemma, a family of open language models which uses Google's novel Griffin architecture. Griffin combines linear recurrences with local attention to achieve excellent performance on language. It has a fixed-sized state, which reduces memory use and enables efficient inference on long sequences. We provide two sizes of models, containing 2B and 9B parameters, and provide pre-trained and instruction tuned variants for both. Our models achieve comparable performance to similarly-sized Gemma baselines despite being trained on fewer tokens.

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