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Transformers for Natural Language Processing - Second Edition

By : Denis Rothman
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Book Image

Transformers for Natural Language Processing - Second Edition

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By: Denis Rothman

Overview of this book

Transformers are...well...transforming the world of AI. There are many platforms and models out there, but which ones best suit your needs? Transformers for Natural Language Processing, 2nd Edition, guides you through the world of transformers, highlighting the strengths of different models and platforms, while teaching you the problem-solving skills you need to tackle model weaknesses. You'll use Hugging Face to pretrain a RoBERTa model from scratch, from building the dataset to defining the data collator to training the model. If you're looking to fine-tune a pretrained model, including GPT-3, then Transformers for Natural Language Processing, 2nd Edition, shows you how with step-by-step guides. The book investigates machine translations, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, question-answering, and many more NLP tasks. It provides techniques to solve hard language problems and may even help with fake news anxiety (read chapter 13 for more details). You'll see how cutting-edge platforms, such as OpenAI, have taken transformers beyond language into computer vision tasks and code creation using DALL-E 2, ChatGPT, and GPT-4. By the end of this book, you'll know how transformers work and how to implement them and resolve issues like an AI detective.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Index
Appendix I — Terminology of Transformer Models

The Emergence of Transformer-Driven Copilots

When Industry 4.0 (I4.0) reaches maturity, it will all be about machine-to-machine connections, communication, and decision-making. AI will be primarily embedded in ready-to-use pay-as-you-go cloud AI solutions. Big tech will absorb the most talented AI specialists to create APIs, interfaces, and integration tools.

AI specialists will go from development to design to becoming architects, integrators, and cloud AI pipeline administrators. Thus, AI is becoming a job for engineer consultants more than engineer developers.

Chapter 1, What Are Transformers?, introduced foundation models, transformers that can do NLP tasks they were not trained for. Chapter 15, From NLP to Task-Agnostic Transformer Models, expanded foundation model transformers to task-agnostic models that can perform vision tasks, NLP tasks, and much more.

This chapter will extend task-agnostic OpenAI GPT-3 models to a wide range of copilot tasks. A new generation...