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Glossary: Transformers Basics

Transformer block

Also written: block

The repeating unit of a transformer: attention (tokens exchange information) then an MLP (each token alone), each preceded by layer norm and added back through a residual connection. The block keeps the vector shape, so blocks stack.

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Related terms

TransformerMLP (multilayer perceptron)Residual connectionPre-norm