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PAPER SUMMARY

Attention Is All You Need (Vaswani et al., 2017)

This paper introduces the Transformer, a sequence-transduction architecture that replaces recurrence and convolution entirely with self-attention. It achieves state-of-the-art translation quality while being substantially more parallelisable and faster to train.

Problem & Motivation

Recurrent models process tokens sequentially, preventing parallelisation within training examples.
Long-range dependencies require many sequential steps, making them hard to learn.
The authors seek an architecture that models dependencies regardless of distance, in constant sequential operations.

Method

Self-attention relates all positions in a sequence in O(1) sequential operations.
Multi-head attention lets the model attend to information from different representation subspaces.
Positional encodings inject order information since the model has no recurrence.

Results & Significance

Achieved 28.4 BLEU on WMT 2014 English-to-German, beating prior best by over 2 BLEU.
Trained in a fraction of the time of recurrent/convolutional baselines.
Became the foundational architecture for nearly all modern large language models.

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