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Exploring a NORD × RHEA hybrid: a spiking/event-driven alternative to a fixed Transformer stack

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​ I've been experimenting for a while with two different ideas for non-Transformer language models, and I'm now considering combining them into one architecture. The first is NORD, a recurrent/spiking architecture I've been developing around token-time dynamics, persistent state, sparse proc…

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  1. 2026-08-24 10:05 · r/artificial
    Exploring a NORD × RHEA hybrid: a spiking/event-driven alternative to a fixed Transformer stack

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