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Re:Biological Function Emerges from Unsupervised Learning on... by nl on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @06:27AM (#19795867)
The Attention Is All You Need paper is where Transforms were introduced:

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

Re:Biological Function Emerges from Unsupervised Learning on... by return1 on Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:06PM (#19809388)
Yup, and the state of the art BERT and gpt-2 are both based on transformers.