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Ashish Vaswani · Noam Shazeer · Niki Parmar · Jakob Uszkoreit · Llion Jones · Aidan N. Gomez · Łukasz Kaiser · Illia Polosukhin<br>Google Brain · Google Research · University of Toronto<br>Abstract<br>The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.<br>Inputs Outputs N× N× Softmax Encoder Decoder Figure 1: The Transformer — model architecture.

(1)<br>Scaled dot-product attention.<br>Table 2: BLEU on newstest2014. ModelEN–DEEN–FR ByteNet23.75— GNMT + RL24.639.92 Transformer (big)28.441.8

Markdown output<br># Attention Is All You Need Ashish Vaswani · Noam Shazeer · Niki Parmar · Jakob Uszkoreit · Llion Jones · Aidan N. Gomez · Łukasz Kaiser · Illia Polosukhin Google Brain · Google Research · University of Toronto ## Abstract The dominant sequence transduction models<br>are based on complex recurrent or convolutional<br>neural networks. We propose a new simple network<br>architecture, the Transformer,<br>based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing<br>with recurrence and convolutions entirely.<br> ✓ Inputs Outputs N× N× Softmax Encoder Decoder<br>$$ ✓<br>$$ Table 2: BLEU on newstest2014. ✓ ModelEN–DEEN–FR ByteNet23.75— GNMT + RL24.639.92 Transformer (big)28.441.8

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