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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

5 (1)
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

Questions

  1. A zero-shot method trains the parameters once. (True/False)
  2. Gradient updates are performed when running zero-shot models. (True/False)
  3. GPT models only have a decoder stack. (True/False)
  4. It is impossible to train a 117M GPT model on a local machine. (True/False)
  5. It is impossible to train the GPT-2 model with a specific dataset. (True/False)
  6. A GPT-2 model cannot be conditioned to generate text. (True/False)
  7. A GPT-2 model can analyze the context of an input and produce completion content. (True/False)
  8. We cannot interact with a 345M-parameter GPT model on a machine with less than 8 GPUs. (True/False)
  9. Supercomputers with 285,000 CPUs do not exist. (True/False)
  10. Supercomputers with thousands of GPUs are game-changers in AI. (True/False)