The paper “Attention Is All You Need” introduces the Transformer, a breakthrough architecture designed for sequence-to-sequence tasks.The Transformer completely removes recurrence and convolution, relying entirely on self-attention mechanisms to model word relationships.The architecture is built around an encoder-decoder structure, with attention-based layers replacing RNNs and convolutions.The Transformer's simple and efficient design has become the foundation for big AI models like GPT, BERT, and T5.