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transformer

  • noun
  • trans·form·er
  • /tɹænsˈfɔːmə/

Something that transforms, changing its own or another thing's shape.

Other meanings

  1. A static device that transfers electric energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling

  2. A neural network architecture composed of layers of attention which takes sequences of tokens (representing text, images, audio, or other modalities) as input.

A kind of

  • electrical device

Kinds of transformer

  • coil

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “transformer” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.