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Generating Long Sequences with Sparse Transformers

Sparse Transformers: Making AI Learn Very Long Stories, Fast

This new approach helps AI read and write much longer sequences without needing huge memory.
By changing how the model looks at data, it uses less memory and can handle long sequences that used to be impossible.
The model also trains more layers, so it gets deeper and smarter, yet still runs on regular hardware, more often than not.
It even saves space by recomputing things on the fly, which sounds small but matters a lot when you work with thousands or tens of thousands steps.
The same idea works for pictures, sound and words so it can learn from images, audio, text all together, raw input no fancy pre-processing needed.
The examples look impressive: long, coherent pieces that still show plenty of variety.
This shows in principle these new models could follow a million-step story, maybe more.
People will find creative uses, from long music and stories to huge data tasks, and it's now easier to try.
You can picture bigger and longer creations, happening faster than before.

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