Prehistory — From Neural Networks to the TransformerIlya Sutskever, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc V. Le (Google)Ilya SutskeverOriol VinyalsQuoc V. LeGoogle
Google publishes Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks on arXiv
Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks released on arXiv
Why it matters
Formalized the encoder-decoder that maps a sequence to a sequence. The ancestor of today's generative model interface
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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3215Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week