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PAR Transformer

1 paper tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Swetha Mandava et al. in Pay Attention when Required

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

PAR Transformer is a Transformer model that uses 63% fewer self-attention blocks, replacing them with feed-forward blocks, while retaining test accuracies. It is based on the Transformer-XL architecture and uses neural architecture search to find an an efficient pattern of blocks in the transformer architecture.

PaperSource

Papers archive 2025-07-28

1 shown of 1, 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.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

4 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
Language Modelling1
Paraphrase Identification1
Question Answering1
Sentiment Analysis1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with PAR Transformer: 2020 to 2020, peak 1 1 0 2020: 1 paper 2020
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (1 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

Components: the archive holds no method-to-method composition, so PwC's Components table cannot be rebuilt; the Papers list carries no Results column for the same reason (the archive does not join its leaderboard rows to method tags).

Categories archive 2025-07-28

Transformers

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