The Transformer Model

A Step by Step Breakdown of the Transformer's Encoder-Decoder Architecture

Introduction

In 2017, Google researchers and developers released the paper "Attention is All You Need" that highlighted the rise of the Transformer model. In their paper, the transformer achieved new state of the art for translation tasks over previous natural language processing (NLP) models architectures. Given their current dominance in the field of NLP, this article dives into the details of the transformer's architecture with the …

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