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Attention Is All You Need

The Transformer replaces recurrent sequence processing with attention, creating a foundation for many later language and multimodal models.

Ashish Vaswani et al.
2017-06 · Google · Research paper
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Read the attention mechanism, positional encodings and encoder–decoder architecture before exploring later model families.

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@misc{vaswani2017attention,
  title = {Attention Is All You Need},
  author = {Ashish Vaswani and Noam Shazeer and Niki Parmar and Jakob Uszkoreit and Llion Jones and Aidan N. Gomez and Lukasz Kaiser and Illia Polosukhin},
  year = {2017},
  eprint = {1706.03762},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762}
}

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