Clustering in pure-attention hardmax transformers and its role in sentiment analysis
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| author | Alcalde, Albert Fantuzzi, Giovanni Zuazua, Enrique |
| author_facet | Alcalde, Albert Fantuzzi, Giovanni Zuazua, Enrique |
| contents | Transformers are extremely successful machine learning models whose mathematical properties remain poorly understood. Here, we rigorously characterize the behavior of transformers with hardmax self-attention and normalization sublayers as the number of layers tends to infinity. By viewing such transformers as discrete-time dynamical systems describing the evolution of points in a Euclidean space, and thanks to a geometric interpretation of the self-attention mechanism based on hyperplane separation, we show that the transformer inputs asymptotically converge to a clustered equilibrium determined by special points called \textit{leaders}. We then leverage this theoretical understanding to solve sentiment analysis problems from language processing using a fully interpretable transformer model, which effectively captures `context' by clustering meaningless words around leader words carrying the most meaning. Finally, we outline remaining challenges to bridge the gap between the mathematical analysis of transformers and their real-life implementation. |
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| spellingShingle | Clustering in pure-attention hardmax transformers and its role in sentiment analysis Alcalde, Albert Fantuzzi, Giovanni Zuazua, Enrique Computation and Language Machine Learning Dynamical Systems 68T07, 68T50 Transformers are extremely successful machine learning models whose mathematical properties remain poorly understood. Here, we rigorously characterize the behavior of transformers with hardmax self-attention and normalization sublayers as the number of layers tends to infinity. By viewing such transformers as discrete-time dynamical systems describing the evolution of points in a Euclidean space, and thanks to a geometric interpretation of the self-attention mechanism based on hyperplane separation, we show that the transformer inputs asymptotically converge to a clustered equilibrium determined by special points called \textit{leaders}. We then leverage this theoretical understanding to solve sentiment analysis problems from language processing using a fully interpretable transformer model, which effectively captures `context' by clustering meaningless words around leader words carrying the most meaning. Finally, we outline remaining challenges to bridge the gap between the mathematical analysis of transformers and their real-life implementation. |
| title | Clustering in pure-attention hardmax transformers and its role in sentiment analysis |
| topic | Computation and Language Machine Learning Dynamical Systems 68T07, 68T50 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01602 |