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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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    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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