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Vaswani and colleagues removed recurrence entirely, proposing an architecture “based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely”, and reported 28.4 BLEU on WMT 2014 English-to-German and 41.8 on English-to-French with substantially less training time [ 11 ] . The core operation is a single scaled dot-product: $\mathrm{Attention}(Q, K, V) = \mathrm{softmax}\!\left(\frac{QK^{\top}}{\sqrt{d_k}}\right)V$. The analytical point is that this is primarily a hardware result dressed as an architectural one. Every position attends to every other position in one parallel matrix multiplication, which maps precisely onto accelerator hardware in a way that a sequential recurrence never can. The transformer is what made it economically…

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