Re:Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics
by ninjin on Sunday May 18, 2025 @04:39AM
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These are different people:
https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Nguyen,+...
Wikipedia mentions that up to ~40% of the Vietnamese population (~40,000,000 people) carries the name Nguyen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen
For the paper itself, as someone working in the field, I find it interesting enough to consider reading at some point (I do not read that many analysis papers recently, but this one looks better than most). As for your accusation about it claiming that large language models are simply n-gram models, read the abstract until you realise that your accusation is very much unfair to the work.
Re:Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics
by ayhanfuat on Sunday May 18, 2025 @04:44AM
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> Thr author submitted like 10 papers this May alone. Is that weird?
Chances are, you just assumed all the search results for 'Nguyen, T' refer to the same author.
Re:Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics
by justanotherjoe on Sunday May 18, 2025 @06:29AM
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I did. My bad.
Thr author submitted like 10 papers this May alone. Is that weird?