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Why are ordinary RNN time steps difficult to parallelize within one sequence?

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  1. Steps depend sequentially
  2. Weights are always integers
  3. Sequences contain only images

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References

  1. Attention Is All You Need (Vaswani et al., 2017) arxiv.org/html/1706.03762 Checked 2026-10-11.

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