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LSTM is dead. Long Live Transformers!

Seattle Applied Deep Learning · 4 HN recommendations

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Leo Dirac explains how transformer models have replaced LSTMs in NLP. He gives background from bag of words through RNNs and LSTMs, then a technical deep dive into multi-headed self-attention and positional encoding, with sample code.

Why HN recommends it: Recommended as a clear explanation of why RNNs fall short and how transformers solve it.

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