transformers
n. countablen. devices that change the voltage of electricity, or a type of computer model used to process language and images. You might know them as the machines on power poles or the technology behind AI.
n. electrical devices that transfer energy between circuits through electromagnetic induction, or a specific architecture in machine learning designed to handle sequential data. Often refers to the 'Transformer' model which uses self-attention mechanisms to process entire sequences simultaneously.
The power grid uses transformers to lower the voltage for homes.
Modern AI chatbots rely on transformers to understand the context of long sentences and provide accurate answers.
By implementing the transformer architecture, researchers significantly improved the efficiency of neural networks, allowing models to be trained on massive datasets without the bottleneck of sequential processing.
Commonly used in the plural when referring to the general technology or a set of electrical components.