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What is Transformer?

It is a powerful architectural structure that forms the basis of modern artificial intelligence models.

Overview

Transformer is a revolutionary architecture that enables today's artificial intelligence models to understand sentences as a whole. Thanks to its attention mechanism, it simultaneously analyzes the relationship between words in a sentence.

Analogy: The old methods were like a student reading a sentence by looking at individual words. Transformer, on the other hand, is like a genius who focuses on the entire page at a glance and instantly sees which words complement each other.

How it works

The model gives an 'attention' score to each word in the text. For example, in the sentence 'I went to the bank because I ran out of money', it mathematically calculates the strong bond of the word 'money' with the word 'bank' and grasps the context in this way.

Where it is used

It is at the heart of modern language models, translation tools, and text summarization systems such as ChatGPT.

Commonly confused with

It is not just a model, it is a basic architectural structure on which models are built.

Frequently asked questions

Why is it so popular?

Because it has the ability to process even very long texts without losing their context.

Is it only used for text?

No, today it is also used successfully in image and audio processing fields.

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