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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Related Work
3. Preliminaries
4. Simplifying Transformer Blocks
Summary
The paper discusses simplifying transformer blocks by removing non-essential components such as skip connections, value parameters, projection parameters, and sequential sub-blocks. The study aims to improve training speed and efficiency of transformer architectures. The authors present experimental findings and theoretical insights to support their simplification approach. By removing unnecessary components, the simplified transformers show comparable performance to standard transformers while reducing parameter count and increasing training throughput. The study highlights the importance of signal propagation theory and empirical observations in designing efficient transformer blocks.