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Improve your productivity with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4 from prompt engineering to creating and analyzing machine learning models

Pretrain a BERT-based model from scratch using Hugging Face

Fine-tune powerful transformer models, including OpenAI's GPT-3, to learn the logic of your data

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

If you want to learn about and apply transformers to your natural language (and image) data, this book is for you. You'll need a good understanding of Python and deep learning and a basic understanding of NLP to benefit most from this book. Many platforms covered in this book provide interactive user interfaces, which allow readers with a general interest in NLP and AI to follow several chapters. And don't worry if you get stuck or have questions; this book gives you direct access to our AI/ML community to help guide you on your transformers journey!

What you will learn

Discover new techniques to investigate complex language problems

Compare and contrast the results of GPT-3 against T5, GPT-2, and BERT-based transformers

Carry out sentiment analysis, text summarization, casual speech analysis, machine translations, and more using TensorFlow, PyTorch, and GPT-3

Find out how ViT and CLIP label images (including blurry ones!) and create images from a sentence using DALL-E

Learn the mechanics of advanced prompt engineering for ChatGPT and GPT-4

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Gabe Rigall Apr 05, 2022

The media could not be loaded. BLUF: This intermediate-to-advanced text provides a no-holds-barred introduction to transformer architecture and application for NLP (and other) tasks. If you're looking to up your NLP game, this book is for you.PROS:- Helpful background information for computer scientists and data wizards alike- Plenty of graphics and in-depth explanations of the "black boxes" of transformers; especially helpful for the visual learner- Good mix of theory and application with a focus on the latterCONS:- Fairly advanced text; assumes the reader has a certain breadth of subject matter knowledge (definitely not for beginners)

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dr t May 04, 2022

Transformer models have powered recent NLP developments and have completely changed the way NLP problems are now approached. Rothman believes that Industry 4.0 professionals need to be aware of multiple approaches and understand that each has its own pros and cons. However, this book is not designed to explain every single transformer model out there. Instead, it tries to explain enough so that readers have enough knowledge to know how to tackle an NLP problem.There is much to like about this book. The book has 16 chapters and begins by explaining transformers, and exploring interesting ideas such as whether programming is now becoming a sub-domain of NLP. There are also fantastic, and very useful, practical examples on how to work with a Bert tokeniser, conditioning a GPT-2 model, question-answering, pre-training RoBERTa models from scratch, and training a tokeniser. The running NLP tasks online section is also useful. Given this readers own background, the chapter on detecting customer emotions to make predictions was fascinating, and frankly left this reader wanting more!. In todays world where XAI is vitally important, the chapter on interpreting black box transformer models, and the section on using BertViz to show visualisations of the activity of transformer models are key to understanding how models work and to interpret model behaviour.This is one of those books where reading is fine, and the questions section at end of each chapter is useful, but one must really do to gain maximum benefit. The book contain lots of Python code to follow but, to be clear, this book is not geared towards Python beginners - there are plenty of great Packt Python beginners books out there already - hence knowledge of NLP and Python is mandatory.In summary, this book cements Rothman's position as the #1 authority on Transformers, and is absolutely the go-to book for Transformers. Highly recommended and a must-buy for any serious NLP practitioner.

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Prateek M. Jul 11, 2022

for NLP practitioners who do not want to skim through the entire internet to look for any concept, this is a very good book as it is concise and good in both theory as well as code

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Derek Martin Apr 06, 2022

I've read anything I can get my hands on re: GPT-3/Huggingface. Prof Rothman has raised the ante for what should be considered acceptable discourse re: GPT-3/Transformers and the new NLP-driven world that we live in.Buy the book; it has a feel of an experienced mentor giving you the tools but more importantly, the judgement to navigate these new waters.

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hawkinflight Mar 25, 2022

This book answers the questions: What are transformers? Why do we care? What do they help us do? Why and how are they better?The 16 chapters cover a lot of material - the author explains what transformers are and how they have evolved, discusses tools and methods that can be used to interpret black box transformer models, and presents applications of transformer models to a variety of tasks, mostly in natural language processing/understanding, but also in computer vision. It's very informative to read about the evolution, and nice to learn the areas where there are limitations. The generalization that has occurred is described.It's great that the book provides interactive ways of learning. There are hands-on coding opportunities via Google Colaboratory notebooks, and questions at the end of each chapter.It's fascinating to read that OpenAI trained a 175 billion parameter GPT-3 transformer model to be run on a supercomputer with 10k GPUs and 285k CPU cores.The book mentions Industry 4.0, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, that is, building on top of the digital revolution, and connecting everything to everything, everywhere. Transformers are described as filling a gap left by the limitations of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for automation in a fast-moving world.It's also interesting to read that transformers mark a new generation of ready-to-use artificial intelligence models; for example, Hugging Face and Google Brain provide AI with a few lines of code.It is mentioned that "learning all of the models is impossible, however, by deepening our knowledge of transformer models, we can understand a new model quickly."The final chapter discusses AI Copilots and machine interconnectivity to speedup transactions and boost productivity. It says, for example, that Microsoft and OpenAI have collaborated and produced a copilot that can write Python code with humans or for humans.

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Transformers for Natural Language Processing: Build, train, and fine-tune deep neural network architectures for NLP with Python, Hugging Face, and OpenAI's GPT-3, ChatGPT, and GPT-4 , Second Edition

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