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Mastering Transformers

You're reading from   Mastering Transformers The Journey from BERT to Large Language Models and Stable Diffusion

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837633784
Length 462 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Recent Developments in the Field, Installations, and Hello World Applications
2. Chapter 1: From Bag-of-Words to the Transformers FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: A Hands-On Introduction to the Subject 4. Part 2: Transformer Models: From Autoencoders to Autoregressive Models
5. Chapter 3: Autoencoding Language Models 6. Chapter 4: From Generative Models to Large Language Models 7. Chapter 5: Fine-Tuning Language Models for Text Classification 8. Chapter 6: Fine-Tuning Language Models for Token Classification 9. Chapter 7: Text Representation 10. Chapter 8: Boosting Model Performance 11. Chapter 9: Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning 12. Part 3: Advanced Topics
13. Chapter 10: Large Language Models 14. Chapter 11: Explainable AI (XAI) in NLP 15. Chapter 12: Working with Efficient Transformers 16. Chapter 13: Cross-Lingual and Multilingual Language Modeling 17. Chapter 14: Serving Transformer Models 18. Chapter 15: Model Tracking and Monitoring 19. Part 4: Transformers beyond NLP
20. Chapter 16: Vision Transformers 21. Chapter 17: Multimodal Generative Transformers 22. Chapter 18: Revisiting Transformers Architecture for Time Series 23. Index 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned how to mitigate the burden of running large models with limited computational capacity. We first discussed how to make efficient models out of trained models using distillation, pruning, and quantization. It is important to pre-train a small general-purpose language model such as DistilBERT. This light model can then be fine-tuned with good performance on a wide variety of problems compared to their non-distilled counterparts.

Second, we have learned about efficient sparse transformers that replace the full self-attention matrix with a sparse one using approximation techniques such as Linformer, BigBird, and Performer. We have seen how they perform on various benchmarks, such as computational complexity and memory complexity. The examples showed us that these approaches can reduce quadratic complexity to linear complexity without sacrificing performance.

As we gather more data over time, we aim for our models to operate more quickly. In...

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