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Transformers: A New Architecture for Natural Language Processing
The term transformer really kind of implicitly applies to different innovations and both of these were actually connected to each other but both pretty transformative in their own right. So the first is the transformer as an architecture. This is the particular kind of development of a very specific type of architecture that came out about five years ago. And it was more effective than recurrent neural networks, particularly the LSTM network which had been used basically for everything that we did in the field.