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Mastering Transformers

Mastering Transformers - Second Edition

By : Savaş Yıldırım, Meysam Asgari- Chenaghlu
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Mastering Transformers

Mastering Transformers

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By: Savaş Yıldırım, Meysam Asgari- Chenaghlu

Overview of this book

Transformer-based language models such as BERT, T5, GPT, DALL-E, and ChatGPT have dominated NLP studies and become a new paradigm. Thanks to their accurate and fast fine-tuning capabilities, transformer-based language models have been able to outperform traditional machine learning-based approaches for many challenging natural language understanding (NLU) problems. Aside from NLP, a fast-growing area in multimodal learning and generative AI has recently been established, showing promising results. Mastering Transformers will help you understand and implement multimodal solutions, including text-to-image. Computer vision solutions that are based on transformers are also explained in the book. You’ll get started by understanding various transformer models before learning how to train different autoregressive language models such as GPT and XLNet. The book will also get you up to speed with boosting model performance, as well as tracking model training using the TensorBoard toolkit. In the later chapters, you’ll focus on using vision transformers to solve computer vision problems. Finally, you’ll discover how to harness the power of transformers to model time series data and for predicting. By the end of this transformers book, you’ll have an understanding of transformer models and how to use them to solve challenges in NLP and CV.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Part 1: Recent Developments in the Field, Installations, and Hello World Applications
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Part 2: Transformer Models: From Autoencoders to Autoregressive Models
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Part 3: Advanced Topics
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Part 4: Transformers beyond NLP

Summary

With this, we have reached the end of the chapter. You should now understand the evolution of NLP methods and approaches, from BoW to Transformers. We looked at how to implement BoW, RNN, and CNN-based approaches and understood what Word2vec is and how it helps improve the conventional DL-based methods using shallow TL. We also investigated the foundation of the Transformer architecture, with BERT as an example. We learned about TL and how it is utilized by BERT. We also described the general idea behind multimodal learning and provided a quick introduction to ViT. Models such as CLIP and Stable Diffusion were also described.

At this point, we have learned the basic information that is necessary to continue to the next chapters. We understand the main idea behind Transformer-based architectures and how TL can be applied using this architecture.

In the next chapter, we will see how it is possible to run a simple Transformer example from scratch. The related information about the installation steps will be given, and working with datasets and benchmarks will also be investigated in detail.

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