Transformer vs RNN: Women in Red Dresses (Attention Is All They Need?)
TL;DR: Transformers process input sequences in parallel, making them computationally efficient compared to RNNs which operate sequentially. Both handle sequential data like natural language, but Transformers don’t require data to be processed in order. They avoid recursion, capturing word relationships through multi-head attention and positional embeddings. However, traditional Transformers can only capture dependencies within their … Read more