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Why transformer in deep learning is called transformer?

Where does the name "transformer" come from in deep learning? I want to know more about the correlation between its name and its working principle.
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Does the transformers model (in “Attention is All You Need”) exclude the encoder in language modelling tasks?

The language model I am referring to is the one outlined in "Attention is All You Need": My understanding is (please correct me if I am wrong) that when the task is translation, the encoder'...
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