Understanding and Building the Transformer
Introduction The transformer architecture has become the foundation of modern deep learning, powering everything from language models to vision models. Since I’ll be referencing transformers frequently in future posts, I wanted to create my own comprehensive analysis of the architecture. In this post, I’ll walk through building a transformer-based translation model step by step, following the original paper by Vaswani et al. (2017)1. We’ll dive into the code, understanding each component as we implement it. ...