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Transformer
A transformer is a neural-network architecture built around attention and highly effective for language and other sequence tasks.
Think of it like
Think of Transformer as part of a very fast reader that repeatedly decides what information matters and what should come next.
Real life
Autocomplete, translation and chat assistants depend on concepts such as Transformer.
SRE lens
Most modern LLM serving systems host transformer-based models.
Remember thisA transformer is a neural-network architecture built around attention and highly effective for language and other sequence tasks.