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Transformers for Natural Language Processing

You're reading from   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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803247335
Length 602 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Denis Rothman Denis Rothman
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Preface 1. What are Transformers? 2. Getting Started with the Architecture of the Transformer Model FREE CHAPTER 3. Fine-Tuning BERT Models 4. Pretraining a RoBERTa Model from Scratch 5. Downstream NLP Tasks with Transformers 6. Machine Translation with the Transformer 7. The Rise of Suprahuman Transformers with GPT-3 Engines 8. Applying Transformers to Legal and Financial Documents for AI Text Summarization 9. Matching Tokenizers and Datasets 10. Semantic Role Labeling with BERT-Based Transformers 11. Let Your Data Do the Talking: Story, Questions, and Answers 12. Detecting Customer Emotions to Make Predictions 13. Analyzing Fake News with Transformers 14. Interpreting Black Box Transformer Models 15. From NLP to Task-Agnostic Transformer Models 16. The Emergence of Transformer-Driven Copilots 17. The Consolidation of Suprahuman Transformers with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index
Appendix I — Terminology of Transformer Models 1. Appendix II — Hardware Constraints for Transformer Models 2. Appendix III — Generic Text Completion with GPT-2 3. Appendix IV — Custom Text Completion with GPT-2 4. Appendix V — Answers to the Questions

Training and performance

The original Transformer was trained on a 4.5 million sentence pair English-German dataset and a 36 million sentence pair English-French dataset.

The datasets come from Workshops on Machine Translation (WMT), which can be found at the following link if you wish to explore the WMT datasets: http://www.statmt.org/wmt14/

The training of the original Transformer base models took 12 hours to train for 100,000 steps on a machine with 8 NVIDIA P100 GPUs. The big models took 3.5 days for 300,000 steps.

The original Transformer outperformed all the previous machine translation models with a BLEU score of 41.8. The result was obtained on the WMT English-to-French dataset.

BLEU stands for Bilingual Evaluation Understudy. It is an algorithm that evaluates the quality of the results of machine translations.

The Google Research and Google Brain team applied optimization strategies to improve the performance of the Transformer. For example, the Adam optimizer...

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Transformers for Natural Language Processing - Second Edition
Published in: Mar 2022
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781803247335
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