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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

Question answering using token classification

A QA problem is generally defined as an NLP problem with a given text and a question for AI, and getting an answer back. Usually, this answer can be found in the original text but there are different approaches to this problem. In the case of Visual Question Answering (VQA), the question is about a visual entity or visual concept rather than text but the question itself is in the form of text.

Some examples of VQA are as follows:

Figure 6.11 – VQA examples

Figure 6.11 – VQA examples

Most of the models that are intended to be used in VQA are multimodal models that can understand the visual context along with the question and generate the answer properly. However, unimodal fully textual QA or just QA is based on textual context and textual questions with respective textual answers:

SQUAD is one of the most well-known datasets in the field of QA. To see examples of SQUAD and examine them, you can use the following code:

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