Save Big on Coursera Plus. 7,000+ courses at $160 off. Limited Time Only! Grab it Explore efficient Transformer acceleration techniques in this Google TechTalk presented by Insu Han. Dive into the challenges of processing long sequences with dot-product attention mechanisms and discover innovative solutions using kernel density estimation (KDE). Learn about the KDEformer approach, which approximates attention in sub-quadratic time with provable spectral norm bounds. Examine experimental results comparing KDEformer's performance to other attention approximations in terms of accuracy, memory usage, and runtime on various pre-trained models. Gain insights into the potential applications and future directions of this research in accelerating large language models and sequence modeling tasks.