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AI scaling laws research

Attention Is All You Need

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arXiv · 9:41 AMAcademic
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3 highly relevant sources identified. Scores above 0.88. Key findings: transformer architectures with self-attention form the foundation of modern large language models. No conflicting information detected.

We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.

Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train.

The Transformer achieves 28.4 BLEU on the WMT 2014 English-to-German translation task, improving over the existing best results, including ensembles, by over 2 BLEU.

Vaswani et al., NeurIPS 2017

attention-is-all-you-need.pdf
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Vaswani et al. 2017 · Transformer

Kaplan et al. 2020 · Scaling Laws

Context
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Brown et al. · GPT-3 paper

Wei et al. · Chain of Thought

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Wikipedia · Neural Networks

arXiv · Survey papers

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SEO aggregators · Ad-heavy sites · Duplicates

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{
  "query": "latest transformer architecture research",
  "results": [
    { "title": "FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate...", "score": 0.97, "url": "https://arxiv.org/..." },
    { "title": "Ring Attention with Blockwise Transformers", "score": 0.91, "url": "https://arxiv.org/..." },
    { "title": "Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling...",  "score": 0.88, "url": "https://arxiv.org/..." }
  ],
  "cached": false
}

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