jun 1, 2017 - Transformer architecture, a revolution in NLP (Vaswani et al.)

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Vaswani et al. introduce the groundbreaking Transformer architecture, which replaces recurrent neural networks with self-attention mechanisms to process input data in parallel. This innovative approach offers increased efficiency and scalability, leading to significant improvements in a wide range of natural language processing tasks. The Transformer architecture becomes the basis for numerous state-of-the-art models, including BERT, GPT-3, T5, and many others, driving further advancements in AI and NLP.

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