Christopher Manning @chrmanning · 19 Aug 2026
Transformers are Inherently Succinct by Pascal Bergsträßer, Ryan Cotterell & Anthony Widjaja Lin is an interesting contribution. Various work (Hahn 2020, Li & Cotterell 2025 i.a.) has shown that transformers are less powerful than RNNs … yet somehow they do so well in practice. https://t.co/s5MmMjdlxy
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