Table lookups again, with Engram

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Popular techniques in language modelling, including RAG, MoE, and attention itself, amount to replacing as much as possible of a neural network model with different kinds of table lookups. In this recent paper from DeepSeek's research group, they attempt another such replacement: shifting factual knowledge out of the model weights as such, into a separate hash table.

Video DeepSeek MoE RAG text Popular techniques in language modelling, including RAG, MoE, and attention itself, amount to replacing as much as possible of a neural network model with different kinds of table lookups. In this recent paper from DeepSeek's research group, they attempt another such replacement: shifting factual knowledge out of the model weights as such, into a separate hash table.

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Table lookups again, with Engram