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Transformer architecture introduced in paper: Attention Is All You Need (Vaswani et al., 2017).
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- Transformer architecture
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introduced_in_paper- Object
- Attention Is All You Need (Vaswani et al., 2017)
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- Tags
- transformer · attention · foundational · vaswani · 2017 · nips
Sources (3)
[1] preprint · arXiv (Vaswani, Shazeer, Parmar, Uszkoreit, Jones, Gomez, Kaiser, Polosukhin) · 2017-06-12
Attention Is All You Need“We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.”
[2] peer reviewed · NeurIPS Foundation · 2017-12-04
Attention Is All You Need (NeurIPS 2017 proceedings)[3] official blog · Google Research · 2017-06-12
Attention Is All You Need (Google Research publication index)
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