Attention Is All You Need
Vaswani, Shazeer, Parmar, Uszkoreit et al. · NeurIPS · 2017
Abstract
Introduces the Transformer, a sequence model built entirely on self-attention that drops recurrence and convolution, trains far more in parallel, and set new translation results.
Why it matters
The paper the entire modern LLM era is built on. If you read one source here, read this one — every model you use is a descendant of this architecture.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762