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Transformer Architecture

The Transformer is a neural network architecture built entirely on attention and feed-forward layers, replacing recurrence with self-attention for sequence modeling. It enables parallel training and long-range context.

What is Transformer Architecture?

The Transformer is a neural network architecture built entirely on attention and feed-forward layers, replacing recurrence with self-attention for sequence modeling. It enables parallel training and long-range context.

The Transformer is a neural network architecture built entirely on attention and feed-forward layers, replacing recurrence with self-attention for sequence modeling. It enables parallel training and long-range context.

Where is it used?

GPT, Llama, Claude, BERT, T5, and virtually every modern LLM are transformers; the architecture scaled from the original 65M-parameter model to trillion-parameter frontier models.

How to build it

Stack N transformer blocks (multi-head attention + MLP + LayerNorm + residuals), add token and positional embeddings, and a final LM head — this is the GPT architecture in PyTorch.