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Concept

Transformer

A Transformer is a neural network architecture, introduced in 2017 ("Attention Is All You Need"), that processes a sequence of tokens by letting every token attend to every other token in parallel. This is the key contrast with the RNNs and LSTMs that preceded it: instead of…

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Transformer, explained · Fig. 1