Concept record · edition 1.0.0

Transformers

What the term means here

A sequence architecture built on attention rather than recurrence or convolution.

Why it matters

Architectural properties set what can be scaled and what the inference cost profile looks like.

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Attention Is All You Need

Vaswani et al. · 2017

The architecture paper underlying the transformer models this atlas is about.

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