Transformer Evolution

Original Transformer

2017

The original Transformer architecture from "Attention Is All You Need" by Vaswani et al. It introduced self-attention as the primary mechanism for sequence modeling, replacing recurrence entirely.

Paper arXiv:1706.03762
Key Innovation Self-Attention Mechanism

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Python

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