Attention Is All You Need — Transformer
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Sherwin Chen
Originally published on Towards AI.
Positional Encoding

Top highlight
from https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=845641
Recurrent Neural Networks(RNNs), Long Short-Term Memory(LSTM) and Gated Recurrent Units(GRU) in particular, have been firmly established as state-of-the-art approaches in sequence modeling and transduction problems. Such models typically rely on hidden states to maintain historical information. They are beneficial in that they allow the model to make predictions based on useful historical information distilled in the hidden state. On the other hand, this inherently sequential nature precludes parallelization, which becomes critical at longer sequence lengths, as memory constraints limit batching across examples. Furthermore, in these models, the number of operations required to relate signals from two arbitrary input… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
Join thousands of data leaders on the AI newsletter. Join over 80,000 subscribers and keep up to date with the latest developments in AI. From research to projects and ideas. If you are building an AI startup, an AI-related product, or a service, we invite you to consider becoming a sponsor.
Published via Towards AI
Towards AI Academy
We Build Enterprise-Grade AI. We'll Teach You to Master It Too.
15 engineers. 100,000+ students. Towards AI Academy teaches what actually survives production.
Start free — no commitment:
→ 6-Day Agentic AI Engineering Email Guide — one practical lesson per day
→ Agents Architecture Cheatsheet — 3 years of architecture decisions in 6 pages
Our courses:
→ AI Engineering Certification — 90+ lessons from project selection to deployed product. The most comprehensive practical LLM course out there.
→ Agent Engineering Course — Hands on with production agent architectures, memory, routing, and eval frameworks — built from real enterprise engagements.
→ AI for Work — Understand, evaluate, and apply AI for complex work tasks.
Note: Article content contains the views of the contributing authors and not Towards AI.