If there is one research paper that everyone must read, it is 'Attention Is All You Need.' This paper introduced the Transformer architecture, the foundation for the 'T' in GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer). It's quite complicated, so if you want an easier version with graphics and simpler text, please check out the work done by Jay.

✅ Brief Summary of My Understanding So Far
The paper introduces the Transformer, a groundbreaking model in the field of natural language processing (NLP). Unlike traditional sequence-to-sequence models that rely on recurrent neural networks (RNNs) or convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the Transformer uses self-attention mechanisms to handle dependencies between input and output without regard to their distance in the sequence. This architecture allows more parallelization during training, leading to significant speed improvements. The model achieves state-of-the-art results in various tasks, particularly in machine translation.

✅ Other key highlights
1️⃣ Self-Attention Mechanism: This enables the model to weigh the importance of different words in a sentence, efficiently capturing long-range dependencies.
2️⃣ Parallelization: The Transformer model processes all words in a sequence simultaneously, drastically reducing training time compared to RNNs and CNNs.
3️⃣Performance: Achieves superior performance on machine translation tasks, setting new benchmarks on datasets like WMT 2014 English-to-German and English-to-French translations.

🔗 Ref Paper: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf
🔗 Jay Blog: https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/