A transformer is a Neural Network (NN) architecture that uses self-attention mechanisms to process sequences in parallel for tasks such as language modeling, translation, and other sequence-to-sequence or sequence-to-label applications. Expanded Explanation 1. Technical Function and Core Characteristics A transformer is a deep learning model that relies on self-attention to compute contextualized representations of tokens in an input sequence. It replaces recurrent and convolutional sequence

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