Attention is All you Need - Paper

Ashish Vaswani & Noam Shazeer & Niki Parmar & Jakob Uszkoreit & Llion Jones & Aidan N. Gomez & Ɓukasz Kaiser & Illia Polosukhin

Description:

GPT stands for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer." It refers to a family of language models based on the Transformer architecture, which was introduced in the paper "Attention Is All You Need" by Vaswani et al. in 2017.

The "Generative" aspect means that these models can generate human-like text based on the input it receives. They can be used for various natural language processing tasks, such as language translation, text generation, question-answering, and more.

The "Pre-trained" part indicates that GPT models are trained on vast amounts of text data before they are fine-tuned for specific tasks. This pre-training helps the model learn the statistical patterns and structures of language, making it capable of understanding and generating text more effectively.

Overall, GPT models are among the most advanced language models and have been instrumental in pushing the boundaries of natural language processing and understanding.

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