The Essential Guide to Transformers, the Key to Modern SOTA AI - KDnuggets

Are you overwhelmed by the vast array of X-formers? X-formers are the name being given to the wide array of Transformer variants that have been implemented or proposed. You likely know Transformers from their recent spate of success stories in natural language processing, computer vision, and other areas of artificial intelligence, but are familiar with all of the X-formers? More importantly, do you know the differences, and why you might use one over another? A Survey of Transformers, by Tianyang Lin, Yuxin Wang, Xiangyang Liu, and Xipeng Qiu, has been written to help interested readers in this regard.