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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1901.02860/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1901.02860/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context — mentioned by vikashrungta</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34710267</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1901.02860:34710267</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:19:46 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;I posted a list of papers on twitter, and will be posting a summary for each of them as well. here is the list https://twitter.com/vrungta/status/1623343807227105280 Unlocking the Secrets of AI: A Journey through the Foundational Papers by @vrungta (2023) 1. &amp;quot;Attention is All You Need&amp;quot; (2017) - https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 (Google Brain) 2. &amp;quot;Generative Adversarial Networks&amp;quot; (2014) - https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661 (University of Montreal) 3. &amp;quot;Dynamic Routing Between Capsules&amp;quot; (2017) - https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09829 (Google Brain) 4. &amp;quot;Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1901.02860/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item><item><title>Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context — mentioned by thegeomaster</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34447401</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1901.02860:34447401</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2023 23:59:28 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s already research that tries to fix this problem with transformers in general, like Transformer-XL [1]. I&amp;#x27;m a bit puzzled that I don&amp;#x27;t see much interest in getting a pre-trained model out that uses this architecture---it seems to give good results. [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02860&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1901.02860/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item><item><title>Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context — mentioned by fghtyu</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33875539</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1901.02860:33875539</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2022 03:29:05 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t Transformer-XL from a different research team, not OpenAI? https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02860&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1901.02860/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item><item><title>Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context — mentioned by liviosoares</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24331429</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1901.02860:24331429</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2020 13:52:06 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Just to clarify one of your points regarding Google&amp;#x27;s involvement: XLnet, and the underlying TransformerXL technology, did have Google researchers involved: * https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/01/transformer-xl-unleashing-... * https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.02860.pdf * https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.08237.pdf My understanding is that a CMU student interned at Google and developed most of the pieces of TransformerXL, which formed the basis of XLNet. The student and the Google researcher further collaborated with CMU researchers to finalize the work. (For the record, I think the remainder of your points…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1901.02860/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item><item><title>Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context — mentioned by AlexCoventry</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21875864</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1901.02860:21875864</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2019 00:21:53 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Have you seen the tables in Appendix E (starts p. 16) of the Transformer-XL paper? I think they&amp;#x27;re pretty good. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.02860.pdf&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1901.02860/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item><item><title>Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context — mentioned by AlexCoventry</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21469545</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1901.02860:21469545</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2019 01:25:31 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;XLNet and Transformer-XL can maintain a memory of the last thousand or so tokens. The results are pretty remarkable. Check out the hallucinated Napoleonic-history wikipedia article at the bottom of https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.02860.pdf&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1901.02860/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item><item><title>Transformer-XL: Attentive Language Models Beyond a Fixed-Length Context — mentioned by ma2rten</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20924373</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1901.02860:20924373</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2019 01:35:27 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Transformer-XL should be better at learning long-term dependencies. See the last section of this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.02860.pdf&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1901.02860/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.LG</category></item></channel></rss>
