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Transformer architecture is a type of neural network architecture designed to handle sequential data, such as natural language processing tasks. It was introduced in the paper "Attention is All You Need" by Vaswani et al. in 2017. The architecture is based on the concept of self-attention, which allows the model to weigh the importance of different words in a sentence when encoding a particular word.

The transformer architecture consists of an encoder and a decoder, each composed of multiple layers of self-attention and feed-forward neural networks. The encoder processes the input sequence and produces a sequence of hidden states, which are then used by the decoder to generate the output sequence. The self-attention mechanism allows the model to capture long-range dependencies in the input sequence, making it well-suited for tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering.

One of the key advantages of the transformer architecture is its ability to process input sequences in parallel, unlike recurrent neural networks (RNNs) which process input sequences one element at a time. This parallelism allows transformers to be trained more efficiently and to handle longer input sequences.

However, transformers also have some limitations. They require a large amount of data to train effectively, and they can be computationally expensive to run. Additionally, transformers do not inherently capture the order of the input sequence, so they may struggle with tasks that require a strict sequential understanding.

Despite these limitations, the transformer architecture has become a popular choice for many natural language processing tasks due to its effectiveness and efficiency. Variants of the transformer architecture, such as BERT and T5, have been developed to address some of its limitations and to improve its performance on specific tasks.