Hierarchical Transformers — part 1

More efficient language models

Mina Ghashami
Towards Data Science
9 min readOct 4, 2023

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In this article, we look at hierarchical transformers: what they are, how they work, how they differ from standard Transformers and what are their benefits. Let’s get started.

What Are Hierarchical Transformers

The “hierarchical Transformer” refers to a transformer architecture…

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