Annotated Transformer: A Line-by-Line Implementation

2025-08-26

This document presents an annotated, line-by-line PyTorch implementation of the Transformer paper. It reorders and removes some sections from the original paper and adds comments throughout. The notebook provides a complete, runnable implementation, explaining the Transformer architecture (encoder, decoder, attention, positional encoding, etc.), training process, and a real-world example (Multi30k German-English translation).

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