Claim · 2017-06-12 · event · Stated in source · Supported

Vaswani et al. (arXiv v1, 2017) name a network architecture based solely on attention mechanisms "the Transformer".

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Attention Is All You Need → uses the name →

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Attention Is All You Needuses the name ↓

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Date: 2017-06-12 · event Records dated 2017 →

Scope and limitsEarliest located naming of the architecture by the recorded search, which did not search indexes for earlier uses of "Transformer" in this sense. The conclusion's "the first sequence transduction model based entirely on attention" is the text's own priority statement.

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Attention Is All You Need

arXiv · 2017-06-12

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“We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.”

Location in source PDF p. 1, abstract

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Ashish Vaswani; Noam Shazeer; Niki Parmar; Jakob Uszkoreit; Llion Jones; Aidan N. Gomez; Lukasz Kaiser; Illia Polosukhin
Version: arXiv:1706.03762v1; first-submission date from version history. Later revisions are not substituted.
Version date: 2017-06-12
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Accessed: 2026-09-20
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Ashish Vaswani; Noam Shazeer; Niki Parmar; Jakob Uszkoreit; Llion Jones; Aidan N. Gomez; Lukasz Kaiser; Illia Polosukhin, Attention Is All You Need (2017-06-12).
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (20 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 107) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. No human editorial review.

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Attention Is All You Need

arXiv · 2017-06-12

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Source excerpt

“the Transformer, the first sequence transduction model based entirely on attention”

Location in source PDF p. 10, section 7 "Conclusion"

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Ashish Vaswani; Noam Shazeer; Niki Parmar; Jakob Uszkoreit; Llion Jones; Aidan N. Gomez; Lukasz Kaiser; Illia Polosukhin
Version: arXiv:1706.03762v1; first-submission date from version history. Later revisions are not substituted.
Version date: 2017-06-12
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-09-20
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Ashish Vaswani; Noam Shazeer; Niki Parmar; Jakob Uszkoreit; Llion Jones; Aidan N. Gomez; Lukasz Kaiser; Illia Polosukhin, Attention Is All You Need (2017-06-12).
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata and brief attributed paraphrases only; no full source, personal contact details or dataset imported.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (11 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The text's own priority statement. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 107) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. No human editorial review.

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Record ID th-fam-tllm-attention-2017