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What is a transformer architecture?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
A transformer is a neural network architecture based entirely on attention mechanisms.
Deep explanation
It replaces recurrence with self-attention layers, enabling parallel processing of sequences and capturing long-range dependencies.
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