🧠 Transformer Model Overview
Transformer is a groundbreaking architecture in deep learning, introduced in 2017 by Google's research team. It revolutionizes sequence modeling by relying entirely on self-attention mechanisms instead of traditional recurrence.
Key Features
- Self-Attention: Enables parallel processing of input sequences, capturing dependencies across positions.
- Positional Encoding: Adds positional information to token embeddings for sequential context.
- Scalability: Handles long-range dependencies more effectively than RNNs or CNNs.
Applications
- Natural Language Processing (NLP):
- Machine translation (e.g., Google's BERT)
- Text summarization
- Question answering
- Computer Vision:
- Vision Transformers (ViT) for image classification
- Object detection with attention-based models
Learning Resources
- Official Paper: Attention Is All You Need
- Interactive Demo: Visualizing Transformers
- GitHub Repository: Open-source implementations
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