Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin of Google Brain published the seminal paper Attention Is All You Need. By completely eliminating recurrent and convolutional structures in favor of a novel mechanism called Self-Attention, this landmark architecture allowed neural networks to process entire sentences concurrently rather than word-by-word, breaking the sequential computational bottleneck and birthing the modern generative AI era.
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