Recurrent Looped Transformer

(yifanzhang-pro.github.io)

14 points | by MayCXC 3 hours ago ago

6 comments

  • vatsachak 10 minutes ago

    Paper written by AI

  • dankai an hour ago

    Is this just a theory about an architecture or are there actually some benchmarks/results to substantiate it?

    • jal278 an hour ago

      appears it's just a theory, sort of surprised this lifted up so far on hn

      • fc417fc802 11 minutes ago

        A fairly obvious theory at that, unless I've critically misunderstood what's being described. As with so many obvious ideas I've always assumed that the reason I haven't come across it in the wild is because it doesn't work (or is comparatively inefficient, or tends to blow up during the training run, or etc).

        > Realized reasoning gains, hardware efficiency, and RL scaling remain to be established.

        Yeah so the first entry in that list is - if I may be so bold - typically what you'd start with at a small scale _before_ writing up and publishing your "genius" idea. This is the usual crank with delusions of grandeur presenting something straightforward that he hasn't tested as though it were a working breakthrough.

        Ironically the cost of testing such theories has fallen to an all time low given the capabilities of coding models. I wouldn't be surprised if a frontier model could one shot a test of this.

  • jal278 an hour ago

    not sure w/o context why this is important -- no results/implementation & i believe there are prior combinations of transformers/RNNs. but perhaps I'm missing the relevance/insight

  • lstodd 14 minutes ago