Ashish Vaswani

Overview

Ashish Vaswani is a machine-learning researcher (formerly Google Brain; later co-founder of Essential AI), a lead author of the Transformer architecture.

Key Contributions / Features

• The Transformer (Vaswani et al. 2017): designed and implemented the first Transformer models; the attention-only architecture that underlies modern large language models.
• Work on self-attention for sequence modeling and generative models.

Related

• Attention Mechanism
• Vaswani et al. (2017) Attention Is All You Need
• Noam Shazeer