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Feedback Transformer
Introduced by Angela Fan et al. in Addressing Some Limitations of Transformers with Feedback Memory
archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.
A Feedback Transformer is a type of sequential transformer that exposes all previous representations to all future representations, meaning the lowest representation of the current timestep is formed from the highest-level abstract representation of the past. This feedback nature allows this architecture to perform recursive computation, building stronger representations iteratively upon previous states. To achieve this, the self-attention mechanism of the standard Transformer is modified so it attends to higher level representations rather than lower ones.
Papers archive 2025-07-28
2 shown of 2, newest first. Repository counts are the archive's code-links table. A Syntology line states what Syntology ran from that paper's harvested code; it is per sample and not a correctness claim.
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Iterative Feedback Network for Unsupervised Point Cloud Registration 9 Jan 2024 · 1 repository · arXiv:2401.04357
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Addressing Some Limitations of Transformers with Feedback Memory 21 Feb 2020 · 4 repositories · arXiv:2002.09402Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
6 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.
| Task | Papers |
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| Language Modeling | 1 |
| Language Modelling | 1 |
| Machine Translation | 1 |
| Point Cloud Registration | 1 |
| Reinforcement Learning | 1 |
| Translation | 1 |
Usage over time archive 2025-07-28
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Categories archive 2025-07-28
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