The Transformer Blueprint: A Holistic Guide to the Transformer Neural Network Architecture
Introduction Invented in 2017 and first presented in the ground-breaking paper “Attention is All You Need”(Vaswani et al. 2017), the transformer model has been a revolutionary contribution to deep learning and arguably, to computer science as a whole. Born as a tool for neural machine translation, it has proven to be far-reaching, extending its applicability beyond Natural Language Processing (NLP) and cementing its position as a versatile and general-purpose neural network architecture. ...