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Transformer

The neural network design underlying nearly all modern LLMs; processes an entire sequence of text at once using “attention” instead of reading word-by-word, making it faster to train and better at long-range context.

Origin

Introduced by Ashish Vaswani and colleagues at Google in the 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need.”

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