Prehistory — From Neural Networks to the TransformerDzmitry Bahdanau, Kyunghyun Cho, Yoshua BengioKyunghyun ChoYoshua Bengio
Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate released on arXiv — introduced attention
Why it matters
The paper that solved the fixed-length vector bottleneck with attention. The direct predecessor of the Transformer's self-attention
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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0473Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week