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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

Summary

This chapter described the rise of AI copilots with human-decision-making-level capability. Industry 4.0 has opened the door to machine interconnectivity. Machine-to-machine micro-decision making will speed up transactions. AI copilots will boost our productivity in a wide range of domains.

We saw how to use OpenAI Codex to generate source code while we code and even with natural language instructions.

We built a transformer-based recommender system using a dataset generated by the MDP program to train a RoBERTa transformer model. The dataset structure was a multi-purpose sequence model. A metahuman can thus acquire multi-domain recommender functionality.

The chapter then showed how a vision transformer could classify images processed as sequences of information.

Finally, we saw that the metaverse would make recommendations visible through a metahuman interface or invisible in deeply embedded functions in social media, for example.

Transformers have emerged...