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

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0473

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