vaswani-transformer-2017

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Vaswani et al. published the original Transformer architecture paper in 2017.

Summary

This pins down where the Transformer architecture came from and when it was formally introduced, which matters because nearly every modern language model builds on that 2017 design. It acts as a ground-level fact that any downstream claims about Transformer variants, improvements, or lineage ultimately trace back to.