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4 claims from 2 papers

  1. Computer Science › Natural Language Processing Techniques

    Attention Is All You Need

    Vaswani, Shazeer, Parmar et al. · 2025

    The paper proposes the Transformer, a network built only on attention mechanisms, and reports better translation quality and shorter training times than leading recurrent or convolutional models.

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    1. UncheckedThe Transformer model scored 28.4 BLEU on WMT 2014 English-to-German translation, over 2 BLEU above earlier best results, including ensembles.“Our model achieves 28.4 BLEU on the WMT 2014 English-to-German translation task, improving over the existing best results, including ensembles by over 2 BLEU.”
    2. UncheckedOn WMT 2014 English-to-French translation, the Transformer reports a single-model BLEU of 41.8 after 3.5 days on eight GPUs, at a fraction of rivals' training cost.“On the WMT 2014 English-to-French translation task, our model establishes a new single-model state-of-the-art BLEU score of 41.8 after training for 3.5 days on eight GPUs, a small fraction of the training costs of the best models from the literature.”
    3. UncheckedThe paper reports that the Transformer, a model built only on attention, also worked well on English constituency parsing, with large and with limited training data.“We show that the Transformer generalizes well to other tasks by applying it successfully to English constituency parsing both with large and limited training data.”
  2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module

    Woo, Park, Lee and Kweon · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

    The paper proposes CBAM, a simple attention module for convolutional neural networks, and reports consistent gains in image classification and object detection across several models and datasets.

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    1. UncheckedThe CBAM attention module is lightweight and general, so it can be added to any CNN architecture with negligible overheads and trained end-to-end with the base network.“Because CBAM is a lightweight and general module, it can be integrated into any CNN architectures seamlessly with negligible overheads and is end-to-end trainable along with base CNNs.”

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