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The research paper titled "Attention Is All You Need," authored by multiple researchers primarily from Google Brain and Google Research, which introduces the Transformer model. This novel network architecture, designed for sequence transduction tasks like machine translation, entirely replaces the complex recurrent and convolutional layers common in previous models with a mechanism based solely on multi-headed self-attention. The authors demonstrate that the Transformer achieves superior performance and significantly faster training times on machine translation benchmarks (English-to-German and English-to-French) by leveraging its high degree of parallelization. Key components of the model, such as the encoder-decoder structure, Scaled Dot-Product Attention, and Positional Encoding, are thoroughly described, and experimental results show the Transformer setting a new state of the art in translation quality while also generalizing successfully to other tasks like constituency parsing
By kwThe research paper titled "Attention Is All You Need," authored by multiple researchers primarily from Google Brain and Google Research, which introduces the Transformer model. This novel network architecture, designed for sequence transduction tasks like machine translation, entirely replaces the complex recurrent and convolutional layers common in previous models with a mechanism based solely on multi-headed self-attention. The authors demonstrate that the Transformer achieves superior performance and significantly faster training times on machine translation benchmarks (English-to-German and English-to-French) by leveraging its high degree of parallelization. Key components of the model, such as the encoder-decoder structure, Scaled Dot-Product Attention, and Positional Encoding, are thoroughly described, and experimental results show the Transformer setting a new state of the art in translation quality while also generalizing successfully to other tasks like constituency parsing