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What are the main criticisms of transformer architectures?
Transformers face three main challenges: (1) quadratic attention complexity 1, (2) lack of inductive bias for structure 2, and (3) data-hungry pre-training 3.
- ⢠Complexity: O(n²) makes long sequences expensive
- ⢠Bias: no built-in locality or hierarchy
- ⢠Data: require billions of tokens to generalize
Which papers to read first?
Based on your knowledge base: start with Vaswani 2017 (the original), then Kitaev 2020 (Reformer) for efficiency solutions.
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