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Why Self-Attention? A Targeted Evaluation of Neural Machine Translation Architectures

Annette Rios, Gongbo Tang, Mathias M\"uller, Rico Sennrich

arxiv:1808.08946 v3 · 2018-08-27 · cs.CL

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arxiv: 1808.08946 · arxiv_version: 1808.08946v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.08946 · pith_short_12: VTMTFKLKIOVY · pith_short_16: VTMTFKLKIOVY3FGI · pith_short_8: VTMTFKLK
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