What are the computational efficiency tradeoffs of sparse attention mechanisms in large-scale language models

Many real-world applications require the prediction of long sequence time-series, such as electricity consumption planning. Long sequence time-series forecasting (LSTF) demands a high prediction capacity of the model, which is the ability to capture precise long-range dependency coupling between output and input efficiently. Recent studies have shown the potential of Transformer to increase the prediction capacity. However, there are several severe issues with Transformer that prevent it from being directly applicable to LSTF, including quadratic time complexity, high memory usage, and inheren

Research goal: What are the computational efficiency tradeoffs of sparse attention mechanisms in large-scale language models

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