《AI浪潮：chatGPT 辅导精读学术论文的实验》

做过几个实验，把 chatGPT 当成tutor，帮助我精读论文，看它有多少胡说，有多少循循善诱深入浅出。

当然，对我不懂的专业，胡说我也看不出来，只有专家能看出来。说一下初步体验，chatGPT当辅导员是一个很好的方向，几乎不需要做太多的工作，只要能接上就可以根据不同客户的目标朝向任何专门辅导的方向去发展，例如：（1）辅导面试；（2）辅导论文阅读；（3）辅导编程序（已经有 co-pilot 就是做那个方向，最近那个从特斯拉离职以前负责特斯拉自动驾驶的牛人现身说法，他说他现在写程序 70% 以上借助 co-pilot，虽然也听说过其他 guru 对 co-pilot 不屑一顾，说我懂的我不需要它，我感觉痛点的地方它帮不了我。这些不同的反应很正常，因为并不是每一个人都需要和拥抱“被机器辅导”的新潮流，就像有人有自动驾驶却从来不用，而我现在离开自动驾驶感觉非常别扭一样）；（4）.........

LLM（“老流氓”）做辅导最大的问题还是他不懂装懂，胡说八道。就是说他“耍流氓”的时候他不露声色，还是一副道貌岸然的样子。这个问题目前看来无解，就是说很难避免它在辅导你知识的同时，不夹带私货或者误导你。这也不能怪他，无所不知而且无穷耐心与天马行空胡说八道是伴生品，非专家无法区分。而被辅导者通常不是专家，否则为何要被辅导。

只能看 pros and cons 的权衡了。只要牢记不能拿它的话当成金科玉律，保持适当的警惕性，对于关键环节需要多方做求证才能应用，那么被辅导也就不是问题，可以让辅导的利益最大化。这与使用 FSD 开车的感觉类似，你不可以全信这个 beta 系统（即便将来取消 beta 标签，也不能全信），它的确可能在最糟糕的情景下做出最灾难性的选择，你必须保持警惕，随时干预和接管。但是从中受益的人还是很多。美国市场的特斯拉车主渗透力达到了1/4强，记得是二三十万人每天在用它。你不能说这几十万人都是傻瓜：花费一万多美金心甘情愿做小白鼠，冒着自己的生命危险，为马斯克趟雷，给特斯拉免费做标注和反馈。还是被-autopilot 所带来的好处远远大于它的潜在危害，才会有 early adopters 愿意去拥抱技术。同理，用 LLM 帮助做辅导一定会带来很多好处，虽然它可能会误导。

辅导精读论文这事儿，chat 可算是比较拿手，不管什么专业它都能。谁叫它好为人师。辅导的过程大体如下：我跟他说，请你帮助我精读下面这篇自然论文，我需要对它有一个深入的理解，来应对考试。然后让它做摘要，同时用中文和英文，然后一步步问它各种问题。感觉它回答问题主要还是针对给他的目标文章，但因为它此前这个领域的文章也看了不知道多少（虽然最近两年的没看），所以你问它的任何问题，它都可以解释回答。这与教授辅导学生也一样，教授也是用自己脑袋里的领域知识，不仅仅是所面对的目标论文，来做讲解。

以上算是铺垫，我们现在就现场直播一场辅导，目标论文就是名满天下的那一篇AI论文，发明 自注意力机制 transformer 的那个 attention is all we need，看它能不能比一般人科普、辅导得更加深入浅出。为什么选这一篇做实验，因为 transformer 这个框架和 attention 这个机制，是我们现在见到的这些LLM奇迹的技术源头。其中 transformer 的工程优势也是一个重要因素，但这不是我关心的点，所以没有在下面的 tutoring 过程中强调。这个实验还可以继续向深处做下去，让它讲解每一个术语和细节，看它最后是不是还靠谱。这需要调动积累的知识，它比起一般的老师应该更有记忆。

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Wei:
reading comprehension and summarize this important research in simple terms in both English and Chinese so every college student understand:

Attention Is All You Need Abstract The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks that include an encoder and a decoder. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train. Our model achieves 28.4 BLEU on the WMT 2014 English- to-German translation task, improving over the existing best results, including ensembles, by over 2 BLEU. On the WMT 2014 English-to-French translation task, our model establishes a new single-model state-of-the-art BLEU score of 41.8 after training for 3.5 days on eight GPUs, a small fraction of the training costs of the best models from the literature. We show that the Transformer generalizes well to other tasks by applying it successfully to English constituency parsing both with large and limited training data. 1 Introduction Recurrent neural networks, long short-term memory [13] and gated recurrent [7] neural networks in particular, have been firmly established as state of the art approaches in sequence modeling and transduction problems such as language modeling and machine translation [35, 2, 5]. Numerous efforts have since continued to push the boundaries of recurrent language models and encoder-decoder architectures [38, 24, 15]. Recurrent models typically factor computation along the symbol positions of the input and output sequences. Aligning the positions to steps in computation time, they generate a sequence of hidden states ht, as a function of the previous hidden state ht−1 and the input for position t. This inherently sequential nature precludes parallelization within training examples, which becomes critical at longer sequence lengths, as memory constraints limit batching across examples. Recent work has achieved significant improvements in computational efficiency through factorization tricks [21] and conditional computation [32], while also improving model performance in case of the latter. The fundamental constraint of sequential computation, however, remains. Attention mechanisms have become an integral part of compelling sequence modeling and transduc- tion models in various tasks, allowing modeling of dependencies without regard to their distance in the input or output sequences [2, 19]. In all but a few cases [27], however, such attention mechanisms are used in conjunction with a recurrent network. In this work we propose the Transformer, a model architecture eschewing recurrence and instead relying entirely on an attention mechanism to draw global dependencies between input and output. The Transformer allows for significantly more parallelization and can reach a new state of the art in translation quality after being trained for as little as twelve hours on eight P100 GPUs. 2 Background The goal of reducing sequential computation also forms the foundation of the Extended Neural GPU [16], ByteNet [18] and ConvS2S [9], all of which use convolutional neural networks as basic building block, computing hidden representations in parallel for all input and output positions. In these models, the number of operations required to relate signals from two arbitrary input or output positions grows in the distance between positions, linearly for ConvS2S and logarithmically for ByteNet. This makes it more difficult to learn dependencies between distant positions [12]. In the Transformer this is reduced to a constant number of operations, albeit at the cost of reduced effective resolution due to averaging attention-weighted positions, an effect we counteract with Multi-Head Attention as described in section 3.2. Self-attention, sometimes called intra-attention is an attention mechanism relating different positions of a single sequence in order to compute a representation of the sequence. Self-attention has been used successfully in a variety of tasks including reading comprehension, abstractive summarization, textual entailment and learning task-independent sentence representations [4, 27, 28, 22]. End-to-end memory networks are based on a recurrent attention mechanism instead of sequence- aligned recurrence and have been shown to perform well on simple-language question answering and language modeling tasks [34]. To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence- aligned RNNs or convolution. In the following sections, we will describe the Transformer, motivate self-attention and discuss its advantages over models such as [17, 18] and [9].

chat:
The research paper "Attention Is All You Need" proposes a new network architecture called the Transformer, which is based solely on attention mechanisms and does not use recurrence or convolutions. The Transformer is able to perform better on machine translation tasks and requires less time to train. It also shows that the Transformer can be applied to other tasks, such as English constituency parsing.

研究论文 "Attention Is All You Need" 提出了一种新的网络架构，称为Transformer，它完全基于注意机制，不使用循环或卷积。Transformer能够在机器翻译任务上表现更好，并且训练时间更短。它还表明Transformer可以应用于其他任务，如英语选区解析。

The Transformer architecture uses an attention mechanism to allow the model to draw global dependencies between input and output sequences, without being constrained by the distance between the positions. This allows for more parallelization during training and results in a new state-of-the-art in translation quality. Additionally, the Transformer uses Multi-Head Attention to counteract the reduced effective resolution caused by averaging attention-weighted positions. Overall, this architecture allows for more efficient and effective training of sequence transduction models.

Transformer架构使用注意机制，使模型能够在输入和输出序列之间建立全局依赖关系，而不受位置之间距离的限制。这允许在训练期间进行更多的并行化，并导致翻译质量的新技术水平。此外，Transformer使用Multi-Head Attention来抵消由平均注意力加权位置引起的有效分辨率降低。总体而言，这种架构允许更有效率和有效的序列转换模型训练。

Wei: what is new and what is different, compared with previous studies:

Q: What is the Transformer?  
A: The Transformer is a neural sequence transduction model that has an encoder-decoder structure. The encoder maps an input sequence of symbols to a sequence of continuous representations, and the decoder generates an output sequence of symbols one element at a time.

Q: How does the Transformer work?  
A: The Transformer uses stacked self-attention and point-wise, fully connected layers for both the encoder and decoder. The encoder is composed of a stack of identical layers, each with two sub-layers: a multi-head self-attention mechanism and a position-wise fully connected feed-forward network. The decoder is also composed of a stack of identical layers, with an additional sub-layer that performs multi-head attention over the output of the encoder stack.

Q: What is the attention function used in the Transformer?  
A: The attention function used in the Transformer is called "Scaled Dot-Product Attention", which is computed using dot products between queries, keys, and values, and a softmax function to obtain the weights on the values.   

Q: How does the Transformer differ from other neural sequence transduction models?  
A: The Transformer differs from other neural sequence transduction models in its use of stacked self-attention and point-wise, fully connected layers for both the encoder and decoder. Additionally, the Transformer uses the Scaled Dot-Product Attention function for computing attention, which is different from other attention functions like additive attention.

Q: Can you explain the Encoder and Decoder Stacks in Transformer? 
A: The Encoder is composed of a stack of N=6 identical layers, each with two sub-layers: a multi-head self-attention mechanism and a position-wise fully connected feed-forward network. The encoder uses residual connections and layer normalization to improve performance. The decoder is also composed of a stack of N=6 identical layers, with an additional sub-layer that performs multi-head attention over the output of the encoder stack. The decoder also uses residual connections and layer normalization, and also has a mechanism to prevent positions from attending to subsequent positions. 

Q: What is the purpose of residual connections in the Transformer? 
A: The purpose of residual connections in the Transformer is to improve the training of the model by allowing the gradients to flow more easily through the layers. This makes it easier for the model to learn the identity function, or the identity mapping of the inputs to the outputs. Additionally, Residual connections help to mitigate the problem of vanishing gradients, which is a common problem in deep neural networks.

Q: What is the purpose of Multi-head attention in Transformer?  
A: The purpose of multi-head attention in Transformer is to increase the representational capacity of the model. Instead of having a single attention mechanism, multi-head attention allows the model to attend to different parts of the input sequence at the same time. This allows the model to extract different types of information from the input sequence, which can be useful for different types of tasks.

Q: How does Multi-head attention work in Transformer?  
A: Multi-head attention works by splitting the queries, keys, and values into multiple heads, and then performing the attention function on each head separately. The outputs from all the heads are then concatenated and transformed by a final linear layer to produce the final output. By having multiple heads, the model is able to attend to different parts of the input sequence simultaneously and extract different types of information.

Q: What is the Layer normalization used in the Transformer?  
A: Layer normalization is a technique used in the Transformer to improve the stability and the performance of the model during training. It normalizes the activations of a layer by subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation of the activations. This helps to prevent the activations from becoming too large or too small, which can cause problems during training. It also helps to speed up the convergence of the model.

Q: Transformer 和其他神经序列转换模型有什么不同？  
A: Transformer 与其他神经序列转换模型不同在于它使用了堆叠起来的自注意力和全连接层来实现编码器和解码器。此外，Transformer 使用了缩放点积注意力函数来计算注意力，这与其他注意力函数（如加法注意力）不同。 

Q: 在 Transformer 中，编码器和解码器堆栈有什么作用？ 
A: 编码器由 N=6 个相同层组成，每层有两个子层：多头自注意机制和位置敏感全连接前馈网络。编码器使用残差连接和层归一化来提高性能。解码器也由 N=6 个相同层组成，除了两个子层外，解码器还有一个子层，它在编码器堆栈输出上执行多头注意。解码器也使用残差连接和层归一化，并且还具有防止位置注意后续位置的机制。

Q: Transformer 中残差连接的目的是什么？ 
A: Transformer 中残差连接的目的是通过使梯度更容易流动来提高模型的训练。这使得模型更容易学习输入和输出之间的单位函数（即输入和输出之间的同一映射）。另外，残差连接还有助于缓解深度神经网络中常见的梯度消失问题。 

Q: Transformer 中的缩放点积注意力函数是如何工作的？ 
A: 缩放点积注意力函数是 Transformer 中用来计算注意力的方法。它通过计算查询、键和值之间的点积，并使用softmax函数来获得值的权重。它是在一组同时的查询上计算注意力函数，将它们打包到一个矩阵Q中。键和值也被打包到矩阵K和V中。我们计算输出矩阵如下: Attention(Q, K, V) = softmax(QK^T / sqrt(d_k)) * V 

这种方法在实际中非常高效，因为它可以使用高度优化的矩阵乘法代码来实现。