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Structured State Spaces for Sequences (S4) is a recently proposed sequence model with successful applications in various tasks, e.g., vision, language modeling, and audio. Thanks to its mathematical formulation, it compresses its input to a single hidden state and is able to capture long-range dependencies while avoiding the need for an attention mechanism. In this work, we apply S4 to Machine Translation (MT) and evaluate several encoder-decoder variants on WMT’14 and WMT’16. In contrast with the success in language modeling, we find that S4 lags behind the Transformer…
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State Spaces Aren’t Enough: Machine Translation Needs Attention
