Analyzing the Tradeoffs Between State Space Models and Transformers
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jxmorris12
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Summary
The blog post discusses the tradeoffs between State Space Models (SSMs) and Transformers in sequence modeling, offering insights and opinions for researchers. It defines SSMs and explores their implications in comparison to Transformers.
Key quotes
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It was meant to be a high-level talk accessible to a fairly broad audience, but hopefully has some interesting insights, opinions, and intuitions around sequence models for the dedicated researchers too.
Just so we’re on the same page, I’ll start by defining what I mean by a state space model.
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