The white papers that actually moved the field, each linked to the original and paired with my plain-language summary, a glossary of the terms, and what it changes in practice.
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Vaswani, Shazeer, Parmar, et al. — Google Brain
The transformer paper. My summary walks the attention mechanism with a spreadsheet analogy, and the glossary decodes “multi-head”, “positional encoding” and friends.
All original papers remain the work of their authors and link to the official source (arXiv or publisher). Summaries and glossaries on this site are my own commentary.