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GradES: Significantly Faster Training in Transformers with Gradient-Based Early Stopping

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  • Haebom

Author

Qifu Wen, Xi Zeng, Zihan Zhou, Shuaijun Liu, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Ningxin Su, Reza Rawassizadeh

Outline

This paper introduces GradES, a novel gradient-based early-stopping method proposed to improve the training speed of large-scale Transformer models. GradES tracks the gradient change of each component (attention projection and feed-forward layer matrices) within the Transformer to address the computational cost of existing early-stopping methods that monitor the validation loss of the entire model. When the gradient change of a specific matrix falls below a convergence threshold, it stops updating that matrix, eliminating unnecessary validation steps and preventing overfitting. As a result, GradES achieves an average accuracy improvement of 1.2% on language tasks and 3.88% on multi-modal benchmarks while reducing training time by 1.57 to 7.22 times.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
Significantly improves the learning speed of transformer models.
Improves generalization performance by preventing overfitting.
It presents a more efficient calculation method than the existing early termination method.
It performs effectively in both language and multi-modal tasks.
Limitations:
The method for setting the specific convergence threshold ($\tau$) is not specified in the paper.
Further research is needed to determine how GradES's performance can be applied to other transformer architectures and tasks.
Consideration should be given to the diversity of experimental settings (model size, dataset, etc.) used in this paper.
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