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    Language models2017

    Attention Is All You Need

    The architecture that changed how we build language models. A closer look at attention, parallelism, and what makes a Transformer work.

    Vaswani et al.
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    Generative AI2020

    Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

    From noise to structure. Understand the surprisingly simple idea behind a generation of image models.

    Ho, Jain & Abbeel
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    Training & compute2020

    Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

    How model size, data, and compute shape performance—and why the assumptions behind a scaling curve matter.

    Kaplan et al.
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    Language models2018

    BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers

    Learning representations from both directions of a sentence, then adapting them to language understanding tasks.

    Devlin et al.
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    Language models2020

    Language Models are Few-Shot Learners

    An exploration of what a large language model can learn from a handful of examples in its context.

    Brown et al.
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    Computer vision2021

    Learning Transferable Visual Models

    Connecting images and language through contrastive learning, with a path to zero-shot visual recognition.

    Radford et al.
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    AI for science2021

    Protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    A landmark approach to predicting three-dimensional protein structure from sequence information.

    Jumper et al.
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    Computer vision2020

    An Image is Worth 16×16 Words

    Treat an image as a sequence of patches, and revisit the role of convolution in visual recognition.

    Dosovitskiy et al.

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