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Temporal Transformer

Processing token chunks across several temporal scales.

Question

How can a language model combine local token detail with information grouped over longer spans?

Approach

The implementation groups tokens into chunks and processes several temporal scales. A hierarchical binding module connects the grouped representations.

The project includes training code, a tokenizer, and a generation variant with a multiscale cache.

Open question

Chunking changes which detail is available at each scale. The useful comparison is whether that tradeoff helps under a fixed parameter and compute budget. The implementation is an experiment; it does not establish better quality or efficiency than a standard transformer.