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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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19
Index
Appendix I — Terminology of Transformer Models

Next steps

You have trained a transformer from scratch. Take some time to imagine what you could do in your personal or corporate environment. You could create a dataset for a specific task and train it from scratch. Use your areas of interest or company projects to experiment with the fascinating world of transformer construction kits!

Once you have made a model you like, you can share it with the Hugging Face community. Your model will appear on the Hugging Face models page: https://huggingface.co/models

You can upload your model in a few steps using the instructions described on this page: https://huggingface.co/transformers/model_sharing.html

You can also download models the Hugging Face community has shared to get new ideas for your personal and professional projects.