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Comment by D-Machine

No, not at all. There is a transformer obsession that is quite possibly not supported by the actual facts (CNNs can still do just as well: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16764), and CNNs definitely remain preferable for smaller and more specialized tasks (e.g. computer vision on medical data).

If you also get into more robust and/or specialized tasks (e.g. rotation invariant computer vision models, graph neural networks, models working on point-cloud data, etc) then transformers are also not obviously the right choice at all (or even usable in the first place). So plenty of other useful architectures out there.

parent D-Machine 10 months ago

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