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Jun 9, 2026 4:43:34 PM

What is a transformer architecture? 

By dotsquares 1 minute read

The transformer is the neural network architecture underpinning most modern LLMs. Its key innovation is self-attention — each token can attend to every other token in the context window simultaneously, capturing long-range dependencies far more effectively than older RNNs or LSTMs. 

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