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An unofficial implementation of $\sigma$-Reparam

Overview

This repository contains an implementation of $\sigma$-Reparam, which is proposed in Stabilizing Transformer Training by Preventing Attention Entropy Collapse (Zhai et al. 2023) at ICML 2023.

Compared to spectral norm, $\sigma$-Reparam introduces a dimensionless learnable variable $\gamma$ to force the updates of spectral norm to be dimensionality independent.

$$ \hat{W} = \frac{\gamma}{\sigma(W)}W $$

Feedbacks and discussions are welcome on how we could make use of $\sigma$-Reparam to enhance our models.

Compatibility

The implementation is based on torch.nn.utils.parametrizations.spectral_norm in PyTorch v2.1.0. Incompability may arise in newer versions.

Reference

Please refer to the original repository for the official implementation.