The Legacy of Transformers: Generations of Fans and Fandom
Introduction The advent of transformers has revolutionized the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and has had a profound impact on various other domains within artificial intelligence (AI). Traditional models like Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory networks (LSTMs) struggled with long-range dependencies and parallelization, leading to issues of inefficiency and limited performance. […]