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Transformers are a deep-learning architecture based on self-attention that enables efficient processing of sequential data. They replaced recurrence in NLP and power large-scale models for language, vision, and multimodal tasks. Transformers enable parallelization and long-range context modeling but require significant compute and large datasets.
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A Transformer is a neural network architecture that uses self-attention to process relationships in sequences in parallel.
Researchers at Google and the University of Toronto introduced Transformers in the 2017 paper Attention Is All You Need.
Each token weights other tokens and forms context-dependent representations. The architecture gains parallelism but needs substantial data and compute.
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