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BP-Transformer
Introduced by Zihao Ye et al. in BP-Transformer: Modelling Long-Range Context via Binary Partitioning
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The BP-Transformer (BPT) is a type of Transformer that is motivated by the need to find a better balance between capability and computational complexity for self-attention. The architecture partitions the input sequence into different multi-scale spans via binary partitioning (BP). It incorporates an inductive bias of attending the context information from fine-grain to coarse-grain as the relative distance increases. The farther the context information is, the coarser its representation is. BPT can be regard as graph neural network, whose nodes are the multi-scale spans. A token node can attend the smaller-scale span for the closer context and the larger-scale span for the longer distance context. The representations of nodes are updated with Graph Self-Attention.
Papers archive 2025-07-28
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BP-Transformer: Modelling Long-Range Context via Binary Partitioning 11 Nov 2019 · 2 repositories · arXiv:1911.04070Syntology ran 0 of 7 samples · 7 unverified
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
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| Task | Papers |
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| Language Modeling | 1 |
| Language Modelling | 1 |
| Machine Translation | 1 |
| Sentiment Analysis | 1 |
| Text Classification | 1 |
| Translation | 1 |
| text-classification | 1 |
Usage over time archive 2025-07-28
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Categories archive 2025-07-28
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