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- Language Models & Architectures
Transformer replaces recurrence with multi-head self-attention for faster, better translation
The Transformer model uses only attention mechanisms, no recurrence or convolution, achieving state-of-the-art BLEU scores on WMT 2014 English-German (28.4) and English-French (41.8) tasks with significantly less training time and cost.
Paper: Attention Is All You Need · Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar and 5 others
Classic · 20176 min readRead the article
- Language Models & Architectures
BERT pre-trains deep bidirectional Transformers for versatile NLP tasks
BERT introduces masked language modeling and next sentence prediction to pre-train deep bidirectional Transformer encoders, achieving state-of-the-art results on 11 NLP benchmarks including GLUE, SQuAD v1.1 and v2.0, with minimal task-specific changes.
Paper: BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding · Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee and 1 other
Classic · 20186 min readRead the article
- Language Models & Architectures
Scaling up GPT-3 enables strong few-shot NLP task performance without fine-tuning
GPT-3, a 175B parameter autoregressive language model, achieves competitive few-shot learning on diverse NLP tasks by conditioning on task demonstrations in text, without any gradient updates or fine-tuning, showing smooth performance gains with scale.
Paper: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners · Tom B. Brown, Benjamin Mann, Nick Ryder and 28 others
Classic · 20206 min readRead the article
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19 days of papers in October 2026
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