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Preferred term

transformer  

Definition

  • "sequence transduction model based entirely on attention, replacing the recurrent layers most commonly used in encoder-decoder architectures with multi-headed self-attention." (Vaswani et al., 2017, p. 10).

Broader concept

Synonym(s)

  • self-attention model
  • transformer network
  • transformer neural network

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Bhatia, S., & Richie, R. (2024). Transformer networks of human conceptual knowledge. Psychological Review, 131(1), 271–306. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000319

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Dennis, S., Shabahang, K., & Yim, H. (2025). The antecedents of transformer models. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 34(1) 3­ –11. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214241279504

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., Kaiser, L., & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you need. arXiv:1706.03762 [cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

    • Document type: software description

    • Access: open

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

In other languages

  • French

  • modèle auto-attentif
  • modèle d'auto-attention
  • transformer

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-XCCLZSQ5-8

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