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The Transformer

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A transformer stacks attention layers with ordinary weighted-sum-and-bend layers, mixes in position information so order matters, and trains end-to-end by descent with backward blame.

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Attention reads all positions at once — a shape fitting parallel hardware, and why the 2017 design won the scale era.

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Trainability at scale won as much as capability — three dials, and a machine built to spin them.