How the RWKV language model works | The Good Minima

I go through and explain a minimal implementation of RWKV in detail.

In this post, I will explain the details of how RWKV generates text. For a high level overview of what RWKV is and what is so special about it, check out the other post about RWKV . To explain exactly how RWKV works, I think it is easiest to look at a simple implementation of it. The following ~100 line code (based on RWKV in 150 lines ) is a minimal implementation of a relatively small (430m parameter) RWKV model which generates text. Minimal RWKV code import numpy as np from torch import load as torch_load # Only for loading the model weights from tokenizers import Tokenizer layer_norm = lam

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