transformer
also referred to as: transformers
2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 1, 2026 by Francois Chaubard · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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May 1, 2026 negative
Chaubard: Transformers cannot sort lists longer than layer count in one pass
“In a one-shot basis. It's like literally that we know a theoretical lower bound that for comparison sort, you can't do better than n log n steps. And if I have a list that's 31 characters or elements long, and my transformer is 30, I run out of steps to do com…”
May 1, 2026 bullish
Gupta: Recursive architectures achieve compute depth without parameter depth
“Recursion advantage now gives you a bunch of advantages over transformers where rather than having, you know, 500 or a thousand or a million or whatever transformer layers and having tons and tons of parameters, you get compute depth basically without this par…”