Why Transformers Have LimitsThe Quadratic Wall, Memory Costs, and What the Ceiling Actually Is
中文摘要
Transformer面临五大结构限制，包括注意力机制的二次方计算、KV缓存增长及由此产生的性能天花板与内存压力。
English Summary
Transformers face five structural limits, including quadratic attention computation and KV cache growth, which create performance ceilings and high memory costs for the architecture.
Original Excerpt
Issue #43:The five specific structural limits of transformer architecture — quadratic attention compute, KV cache memory growth, no… Continue reading on Medium »