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A statistical language model is a probability distribution over sequences of words.

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Why are Transformers "suboptimal" for language modeling but not for translation?

I think I acquired some insights into this question after posting it 1.5 months ago, and since there are no other answers, I'll share them: Plain RNNs are, in practice, incapable of learning long-term …
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Why are Transformers "suboptimal" for language modeling but not for translation?

Language Models with Transformers states: Transformer architectures are suboptimal for language model itself. Neither self-attention nor the positional encoding in the Transformer is able to efficien …
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