flash-attention VS CodeRL

Compare flash-attention vs CodeRL and see what are their differences.

flash-attention

Fast and memory-efficient exact attention (by Dao-AILab)

CodeRL

This is the official code for the paper CodeRL: Mastering Code Generation through Pretrained Models and Deep Reinforcement Learning (NeurIPS22). (by salesforce)
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flash-attention CodeRL
26 4
10,773 476
8.5% 1.9%
9.4 4.2
16 days ago 7 months ago
Python Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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flash-attention

Posts with mentions or reviews of flash-attention. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
  • How the Transformer Architecture Was Likely Discovered: A Step-by-Step Guide
    1 project | dev.to | 8 Apr 2024
    If you're looking for an implementation, I highly recommend checking out fast attention [https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention]. It's my go-to, and far better than anything we could whip up here using just PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Interactive Coloring with ControlNet
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Feb 2024
    * Even if I bought a 3090, I would have to get a computer to go with it, along with a PSU and some cooling. Don't know where to start with that.

    [1] https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/issues/190

  • Coding Self-Attention, Multi-Head Attention, Cross-Attention, Causal-Attention
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2024
    highly recommend using Tri's implementation https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention rotary should be built in, and some group overseas even contributed alibi
  • PSA: new ExLlamaV2 quant method makes 70Bs perform much better at low bpw quants
    2 projects | /r/LocalLLaMA | 10 Dec 2023
    Doesn't seem so https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/issues/542 No updates for a while.
  • VLLM: 24x faster LLM serving than HuggingFace Transformers
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2023
    I wonder how this compares to Flash Attention (https://github.com/HazyResearch/flash-attention), which is the other "memory aware" Attention project I'm aware of.

    I guess Flash Attention is more about utilizing memory GPU SRam correctly, where this is more about using the OS/CPU memory better?

  • Hacking Around ChatGPT’s Character Limits with the Code Interpreter
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2023
    https://github.com/HazyResearch/flash-attention
  • Flash Attention on Consumer
    1 project | /r/LocalLLM | 10 May 2023
  • Unlimiformer: Long-Range Transformers with Unlimited Length Input
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2023
    After a very quick read, that's my understanding too: It's just KNN search. So I agree on points 1-3. When something works well, I don't care much about point 4.

    I've had only mixed success with KNN search. Maybe I haven't done it right? Nothing seems to work quite as well for me as explicit token-token interactions by some form of attention, which as we all know is too costly for long sequences (O(n²)). Lately I've been playing with https://github.com/hazyresearch/safari , which uses a lot less compute and seems promising. Otherwise, for long sequences I've yet to find something better than https://github.com/HazyResearch/flash-attention for n×n interactions and https://github.com/glassroom/heinsen_routing for n×m interactions. If anyone here has other suggestions, I'd love to hear about them.

  • Ask HN: Bypassing GPT-4 8k tokens limit
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 May 2023
    Longer sequence length in transformers is an active area of research (see e.g the great work from the Flash-attention team - https://github.com/HazyResearch/flash-attention), and I'm sure will improve things dramatically very soon.
  • Scaling Transformer to 1M tokens and beyond with RMT
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2023
    Here's a list of tools for scaling up transformer context that have github repos:

    * FlashAttention: In my experience, the current best solution for n² attention, but it's very hard to scale it beyond the low tens of thousands of tokens. Code: https://github.com/HazyResearch/flash-attention

    * Heinsen Routing: In my experience, the current best solution for n×m attention. I've used it to pull up more than a million tokens as context. It's not a substitute for n² attention. Code: https://github.com/glassroom/heinsen_routing

    * RWKV: A sort-of-recurrent model which claims to have performance comparable to n² attention in transformers. In my limited experience, it doesn't. Others agree: https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/16390003799784038... . Code: https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM

    * RMT (this method): I'm skeptical that the recurrent connections will work as well as n² attention in practice, but I'm going to give it a try. Code: https://github.com/booydar/t5-experiments/tree/scaling-repor...

    In addition, there's a group at Stanford working on state-space models that looks promising to me. The idea is to approximate n² attention dynamically using only O(n log n) compute. There's no code available, but here's a blog post about it: https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-03-27-long-learn...

    If anyone here has other suggestions for working with long sequences (hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens), I'd love to learn about them.

CodeRL

Posts with mentions or reviews of CodeRL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-14.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing flash-attention and CodeRL you can also consider the following projects:

xformers - Hackable and optimized Transformers building blocks, supporting a composable construction.

RHO-Loss

TensorRT - NVIDIA® TensorRT™ is an SDK for high-performance deep learning inference on NVIDIA GPUs. This repository contains the open source components of TensorRT.

flash-attention-jax - Implementation of Flash Attention in Jax

DeepSpeed - DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes distributed training and inference easy, efficient, and effective.

XMem - [ECCV 2022] XMem: Long-Term Video Object Segmentation with an Atkinson-Shiffrin Memory Model

memory-efficient-attention-pytorch - Implementation of a memory efficient multi-head attention as proposed in the paper, "Self-attention Does Not Need O(n²) Memory"

EfficientZero - Open-source codebase for EfficientZero, from "Mastering Atari Games with Limited Data" at NeurIPS 2021.

RWKV-LM - RWKV is an RNN with transformer-level LLM performance. It can be directly trained like a GPT (parallelizable). So it's combining the best of RNN and transformer - great performance, fast inference, saves VRAM, fast training, "infinite" ctx_len, and free sentence embedding.

msn - Masked Siamese Networks for Label-Efficient Learning (https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07141)

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