transformer

machine-learning model architecture first developed by Google Brain
class ai Q85810444
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

transformer

Summary

transformer ranks in the top 0.5% of ai entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,869 views/month, #1 of 200).[1]

Key Facts

  • transformer's follows is recorded as recurrent neural network[2].
  • transformer's follows is recorded as long short-term memory[3].
  • transformer's developer is recorded as Google Brain[4].
  • transformer's developer is recorded as Ashish Vaswani[5].
  • transformer's developer is recorded as Noam Shazeer[6].
  • transformer's subclass of is recorded as artificial neural network[7].
  • transformer's subclass of is recorded as deep learning model[8].
  • transformer's has use is recorded as natural language processing[9].
  • transformer's has use is recorded as computer vision[10].
  • transformer's has use is recorded as statistical machine translation[11].
  • transformer's has use is recorded as automatic summarization[12].
  • transformer's has part is recorded as encoder[13].
  • transformer's has part is recorded as decoder[14].
  • transformer's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2017-06-12T00:00:00Z[15].
  • transformer's described by source is recorded as Attention Is All You Need[16].
  • transformer's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://ai.stackexchange.com/tags/transformer[17].
  • transformer's uses is recorded as attention[18].
  • transformer's uses is recorded as feedforward neural network[19].
  • transformer's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11hz_m4ssw[20].
  • transformer's significant person is recorded as Q97454550[21].
  • transformer's schematic is recorded as Transformer, full architecture.png[22].

Why It Matters

transformer ranks in the top 0.5% of ai entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,869 views/month, #1 of 200).[1] transformer has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] transformer is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Attention Is All You Need. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . Attention Is All You Need. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . misovalko.github.io. Retrieved . misovalko.github.io. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). transformer. Retrieved March 8, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/transformer
MLA “transformer.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 8 Mar. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/transformer.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_transformer_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{transformer}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/transformer}, note = {Accessed: 2026-03-08}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): transformer — https://4ort.xyz/entity/transformer (retrieved 2026-03-08)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/transformer · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18d ago · Waldyrious · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has use natural language processing, computer vision, statistical machine translation +1
    Uses attention, feedforward neural network
    Google knowledge graph id /g/11hz_m4ssw
    Has part(s)
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q846636]]"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.