Is Mamba Capable of In-Context Learning?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03170v2
• Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:21:48 GMT
• Title: Is Mamba Capable of In-Context Learning?
• Authors: Riccardo Grazzi, Julien Siems, Simon Schrodi, Thomas Brox, Frank Hutter,
• Abstract summary: State of the art foundation models such as GPT-4 perform surprisingly well at in-context learning (ICL) This work provides empirical evidence that Mamba, a newly proposed state space model, has similar ICL capabilities.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: State of the art foundation models such as GPT-4 perform surprisingly well at in-context learning (ICL), a variant of meta-learning concerning the learned ability to solve tasks during a neural network forward pass, exploiting contextual information provided as input to the model. This useful ability emerges as a side product of the foundation model's massive pretraining. While transformer models are currently the state of the art in ICL, this work provides empirical evidence that Mamba, a newly proposed state space model which scales better than transformers w.r.t. the input sequence length, has similar ICL capabilities. We evaluated Mamba on tasks involving simple function approximation as well as more complex natural language processing problems. Our results demonstrate that, across both categories of tasks, Mamba closely matches the performance of transformer models for ICL. Further analysis reveals that, like transformers, Mamba appears to solve ICL problems by incrementally optimizing its internal representations. Overall, our work suggests that Mamba can be an efficient alternative to transformers for ICL tasks involving long input sequences. This is an exciting finding in meta-learning and may enable generalizations of in-context learned AutoML algorithms (like TabPFN or Optformer) to long input sequences.

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