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  1. [1] A. Vaswani et al., "Attention is all you need," in Proc. Adv. Neural Inf. Process. Syst., 2017, pp. 5998–6008.
  2. [2] K. He, X. Zhang, S. Ren, and J. Sun, "Deep residual learning for image recognition," in Proc. IEEE Conf. Comput. Vis. Pattern Recognit., Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2016, pp. 770–778, doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2016.90.
  3. [3] M. Jinek, K. Chylinski, I. Fonfara, M. Hauer, J. A. Doudna, and E. Charpentier, "A programmable dual-RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity," Science, vol. 337, no. 6096, pp. 816–821, Aug. 2012, doi: 10.1126/science.1225829.
  4. [4] T. B. Brown et al., "Language models are few-shot learners," in Proc. Adv. Neural Inf. Process. Syst., 2020, pp. 1877–1901.
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Journal article [1] M. Jinek, K. Chylinski, I. Fonfara, M. Hauer, J. A. Doudna, and E. Charpentier, "A programmable dual-RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity," Science, vol. 337, no. 6096, pp. 816–821, Aug. 2012, doi: 10.1126/science.1225829. [1]
Book [2] S. Russell and P. Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 4th ed. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Pearson, 2020. [2]
Website [3] IEEE. "IEEE Reference Guide." IEEE Author Center. Accessed: Aug. 15, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/IEEE-Reference-Guide.pdf [3]
Conference paper [4] K. He, X. Zhang, S. Ren, and J. Sun, "Deep residual learning for image recognition," in Proc. IEEE Conf. Comput. Vis. Pattern Recognit., Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2016, pp. 770–778, doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2016.90. [4]

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