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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 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.

Inputs Outputs Softmax Encoder Decoder
Figure 1: The Transformer — model architecture.
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Scaled dot-product attention.
Table 2: BLEU on newstest2014.
ModelEN–DEEN–FR
ByteNet23.75
GNMT + RL24.639.92
Transformer (big)28.441.8
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# 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 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.

![Figure 1: The Transformer — model architecture](figure-1.png)
Inputs Outputs Softmax Encoder Decoder
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$$   Table 2: BLEU on newstest2014.
ModelEN–DEEN–FR
ByteNet23.75
GNMT + RL24.639.92
Transformer (big)28.441.8

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