Attention Is All You Need

TL;DR — The 2017 Google paper that introduced the Transformer, the architecture behind modern large language models.

How much weight it carries: One of the most cited and consequential papers in machine learning.

Where this came from

• Will Manidis’s “most underrated PDF” thread, July 2023 — routing record: The Most Underrated PDF on the Internet (July 2023)

15 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.