
Hi AI folks! 👋
The Transformer has become the de-facto standard architecture in Natural Language Processing (NLP). It is designed to work with sequential data and has completely changed the way we approach many language-related problems.
In NLP, Transformers can be used to achieve state-of-the-art 📈 results in tasks such as text classification, named-entity recognition, text summarization, question answering, machine translation, conversational chatbots 🤖, and much more.
However, the Transformer is also a fairly complex piece of machinery, bringing together several powerful concepts from years of Deep Learning research 🧠.
For anyone who wants to understand how Transformers work and dive deeper into the topic 📖, here are some excellent resources:
- Transfer learning and Transformer models (ML Tech Talks) by Iulia Turc
- Transformer-based Encoder-Decoder Models by Patrick von Platen
- Attention Is All You Need by Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin
- The Illustrated Transformer by Jay Alammar
If you’re getting started with NLP or want to better understand the technology behind today’s Generative AI systems, these are great places to begin. 🚀
Thank you! 🧡


