  Two of the many trends in neural network research of the past few years have
been (i) the learning of dynamical systems, especially with recurrent neural
networks such as long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) and (ii) the
introduction of transformer neural networks for natural language processing
(NLP) tasks. Both of these trends have created enormous amounts of traction,
particularly the second one: transformer networks now dominate the field of
NLP. Even though some work has been performed on the intersection of these two
trends, those efforts was largely limited to using the vanilla transformer
directly without adjusting its architecture for the setting of a physical
system. In this work we use a transformer-inspired neural network to learn a
dynamical system and furthermore (for the first time) imbue it with
structure-preserving properties to improve long-term stability. This is shown
to be of great advantage when applying the neural network to real world
applications.
