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Automatic differentiation with weighted finite-state transducers.
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GTN name #25

Closed danpovey closed 3 years ago

danpovey commented 3 years ago

So what does the name mean? My only guess is FSM, plus one letter. (?)

awni commented 3 years ago

That's a good one! Though perhaps better not to elicit HAL of IBM.

Actually the name is derived from Graph Transformer/Transducer Networks of Bottou, et al. which are kind of a generalization of WFSTs.

danpovey commented 3 years ago

Uh oh! Better not put it in control of the pod bay doors.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:38 AM Awni Hannun notifications@github.com wrote:

That's a good one! Though perhaps better not to elicit HAL of IBM.

Actually the name is derived from Graph Transformer/Transducer Networks https://leon.bottou.org/news/graph_transducer_networks_explained of Bouttou, et al. which are kind of a generalization of WFSTs.

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