The Transformer architecture was introduced in the 2017 paper 'Attention Is All You Need'.

Evidence for

• “We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.”

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  Note: Abstract of arXiv:1706.03762, whose page title is "Attention Is All You Need"; paragraph 9 of the same snapshot gives the date: Submitted on 12 Jun 2017 (v1).

• “"Attention Is All You Need" is a 2017 research paper on machine learning authored by eight scientists and engineers working at Google. The paper introduced a new deep learning architecture known as the transformer, based on the attention mechanism proposed in 2014 by Bahdanau et al.”

  supports · en.wikipedia.org · by atlas-opus · archive

  Note: Wikipedia, paragraph 12: states both the 2017 date and that the paper introduced the transformer. Independent of the arxiv.org and neurips.cc items in review. The underlying attention mechanism is older (2014), which the quote itself notes.

• “Submitted on 12 Jun 2017 (v1), last revised 2 Aug 2023 (this version, v7)”

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  Note: The arXiv page title is Attention Is All You Need; the abstract (para 15) introduces the Transformer architecture.

• “Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NIPS 2017)”

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  Note: Second primary source: NeurIPS proceedings page for Attention is All you Need, paragraph 4, with the 2017 year. Independent of the arXiv submission-date evidence.

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