Slacker News Slacker News logo featuring a lazy sloth with a folded newspaper hat
  • top
  • new
  • show
  • ask
  • jobs
Library
← Back to context

Comment by hansonw

1 year ago

This is also a good paper on the subject:

What Algorithms can Transformers Learn? A Study in Length Generalization https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16028

1 comment

hansonw

Reply

shawntan  1 year ago

Yes this is a good empirical study on the types of tasks that's been shown to be impossible for transformers to generalise on.

With both empirical and theoretical support I find it's pretty clear this is an obvious limitation.

Slacker News

Product

  • API Reference
  • Hacker News RSS
  • Source on GitHub

Community

  • Support Ukraine
  • Equal Justice Initiative
  • GiveWell Charities