2017 AD
Transformer
Artificial intelligence · Machine learning
“Attention Is All You Need” introduces the Transformer architecture, based on self-attention and central to modern language models. It enabled greater parallelization of sequence processing during training and spread to tasks beyond translation.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-20
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
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Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2017-08-31
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Access date
- 2026-09-20
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