architectureIntroduced by Transformer · 2017

Self-attention

Every token attends to every other token, weighted by learned query–key similarity.

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How this idea evolved

Each step is the idea’s introducing paper. The line between steps is the citation link between those papers.

2014
Bahdanau attention Attention mechanism
Let a decoder look back at the most relevant input positions instead of one fixed vector.
Cites · not yet reviewedcited 5× · §Model Architecture
“Most competitive neural sequence transduction models have an encoder-decoder structure [5, 2, 35].”
From Transformer · §Model Architecture
2017
Transformer Self-attention
Every token attends to every other token, weighted by learned query–key similarity.