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title: "How does the Transformer architecture capture long-range dependencies better than RNNs and LSTMs?"  
description: "How does the Transformer architecture capture long-range dependencies better than RNNs and LSTMs?"  
author: "Manish Kumar"  
published: 2026-06-12  
updated: 2026-06-12  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/116794/how-does-the-transformer-architecture-capture-long-range-dependencies-better-than-rnns-and-lstms  
category: "artificial-intelligence"  
tags: ["artificial intelligence", "llm"]  

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# How does the Transformer architecture capture long-range dependencies better than RNNs and LSTMs?


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