The Transformer paper has eight authors, all then at Google

“Attention Is All You Need” lists eight authors, all working at Google (Google Brain and Google Research) at the time of publication: Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin. The paper marked them as equal contributors with the listing order randomized - a detail noted in the paper’s author footnote.

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Last verified June 6, 2026