Add Model Support for xLSTM

[stefan-it]

Model description

Inspired by recent rumors about xLSTM - a hidden successor to LSTM - by Sepp Hochreiter, this issue tracks the open source implementation about adding xLSTM to Transformers library.

Open source status

• [ ] The model implementation is available
• [ ] The model weights are available

Provide useful links for the implementation

• [x] Paper is available here

At the moment no implementation does exist.

Only rumors that xLSTM surpasses GPT-2 on various (small) downstream datasets.

Good overview is the xLSTM Resources repository from @AI-Guru.

[Pythoniasm]

Sounds like a money grab. If it is something useful, he should have chosen the academic path or at least filing patent.

This way of boldly claiming success via non-serious media channels is highly unprofessional. It smells like publicity is more relevant than results which further supports motivations like funding/personal gains/politics.

[DavidFarago]

If I understood it correctly, a patent is on its way, and at least a paper about xLSTM will be published in less than 6 month.

[KnutJaegersberg]

I have some doubts if this is planned as an open source model.

[albertz]

Paper is published now: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04517

[Ghost---Shadow]

Need code and checkpoint or it didn't happen.

[stefan-it]

Official implementation is out now:

https://github.com/NX-AI/xlstm

[danthe1st]

Note that the official source code is AGPL-licensed.