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  Transformer algorithm, first introduced in 2017, revolutionized natural language processing by achieving state-of-the-art results in various tasks, including machine translation, language modeling, and text classification. However, despite its success, the original Transformer algorithm had one significant limitation - it struggled to handle long sequences of data. This meant that it was not suitable for applications such as speech recognition, where the input sequences could be thousands of time steps long. To address this limitation, in 2019, Google introduced Transformer-XL, an advanced version of the Transformer algorithm that can handle longer sequences of data. Transformer-XL introduced several key features, such as segment-level recurrence and relative positional encoding, that made it possible to process longer sequences of data effectively. In this blog post, we will provide a comprehensive guide to Transformer-XL, including an overview of the Transformer algorit...