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- vaswani-attention-is-all-you-need.pdf (15 pages)
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What this paper introduces: the Transformer, a sequence-to-sequence architecture that replaces recurrence with multi-head self-attention. Why it matters: training is faster (no sequential dependence), and the model reaches state-of-the-art translation quality with a fraction of the compute. Key findings: (1) self-attention alone is competitive with RNN/CNN encoders, (2) positional encodings preserve order without recurrence, (3) eight attention heads consistently outperform single-head. Practical takeaway: every major LLM since 2018 is a direct descendant of this architecture.