Feedback Transformers - Addressing Some Limitations of Transformers with Feedback Memory
Explore the concept of Feedback Transformers in this 44-minute video lecture. Delve into the limitations of autoregressive Transformers in language modeling and discover how Feedback Transformers address these issues. Learn about information flow in recurrent neural networks and Transformers, complex computations with neural networks, and causal masking. Examine the Feedback Transformer architecture, its connection to Attention-RNNs, and its formal definition. Review experimental results demonstrating the improved performance of this approach in language modeling, machine translation, and reinforcement learning tasks. Gain insights into how Feedback Transformers enhance representation capacity, allowing for smaller, shallower models with stronger performance compared to traditional Transformers.