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Summarizing https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.11888.pdf
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The authors introduce a family of sequence models based on recurrent linear layers interleaved with position-wise multi-layer perceptrons that can approximate arbitrarily well any sufficiently regular non-linear sequence-to-sequence map over finite length sequences. They show that these models scale linearly in sequence length and can be efficiently parallelized during training using parallel scans. The main idea behind their result is to see recurrent layers as compression algorithms that can faithfully store information about the input sequence into an inner state, before it is processed by the highly expressive MLP. They also provide a proof of universality for non-linear RNNs based on continuous-time dynamical systems.

The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of their model on two tasks: Lotka-Volterra predator-prey dynamics and stock price prediction. They show that their model outperforms other state-of-the-art models in terms of accuracy and efficiency.

In Figure 9 we see example input-output pairs as well as validation performance. The MLP was able to translate the input tokens representations into the correct values of the output sequence. We note that the same MLP is applied to each timestamp, therefore the MLP is effectively implementing eqn (1) for each timestamp.