Augmented Transformer
Augmented Transformers represent a significant advancement in deep learning, aiming to improve the performance and efficiency of standard Transformer architectures by incorporating additional mechanisms to address limitations in handling long sequences, multimodal data, and cross-domain generalization. Current research focuses on integrating state-space models, which excel at capturing long-range dependencies, and employing techniques like adaptive n-gram embeddings and contrastive learning to enhance feature extraction and multimodal fusion. These improvements are driving progress in diverse applications, including speech recognition, scene text recognition, 3D hand trajectory forecasting, and multi-modal object detection, leading to more robust and efficient models for complex tasks.