README.md

Memory Efficient Neural Processes via Constant Memory Attention Block

This is the official implementation of the paper Memory Efficient Neural Processes via Constant Memory Attention Block.

This repository includes our implementation of Constant Memory Attention Block (CMAB) and Constant Memory Attentive Neural Processes (CMANPs).

CMAB is a novel attention block that (i) is permutation invariant, (ii) computes its output in constant memory, and (iii) performs constant computation updates.

CMANP is a NP variant that builds on CMAB, requiring only constant memory unlike previous existing attention-based NPs. Empirically, CMANPs achieve results competitive with other SOTA NPs on popular benchmarks while requiring only constant memory.

Install

Create and activate a conda environment. Install the dependencies as listed in requirements.txt:

conda create --name cmanp python=3.7
conda activate cmanp
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Please check the regression directory for specific usage.

Reference

For technical details, please check the conference version of our paper.

@inproceedings{
    feng2024memory,
    title={Memory Efficient Neural Processes via Constant Memory Attention Block},
    author={Leo Feng and Frederick Tung and Hossein Hajimirsadeghi and Yoshua Bengio and Mohamed Osama Ahmed},
    booktitle={International Conference on Machine Learning},
    year={2024},
    url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=xtwCf7iAs2}
}

Acknowledgement

This code is based on the official code base of Latent Bottlenecked Attentive Neural Processes.