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2017

Transformer Architecture

Era: The Revival · 1990s–2010s

Google proposed the Transformer architecture, a revolutionary breakthrough in NLP. Transformer is the foundation of modern large language models.

Google Brain

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Attention Is All You Need

Google / arXiv · Source type: paper

Introduces the Transformer architecture.

Published: 2017 ·Accessed: 2026-07-16