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Getting Started with Google BERT

You're reading from   Getting Started with Google BERT Build and train state-of-the-art natural language processing models using BERT

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838821593
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sudharsan Ravichandiran Sudharsan Ravichandiran
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 - Starting Off with BERT
2. A Primer on Transformers FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding the BERT Model 4. Getting Hands-On with BERT 5. Section 2 - Exploring BERT Variants
6. BERT Variants I - ALBERT, RoBERTa, ELECTRA, and SpanBERT 7. BERT Variants II - Based on Knowledge Distillation 8. Section 3 - Applications of BERT
9. Exploring BERTSUM for Text Summarization 10. Applying BERT to Other Languages 11. Exploring Sentence and Domain-Specific BERT 12. Working with VideoBERT, BART, and More 13. Assessments 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Pre-training the BERT model

In this section, we will learn how to pre-train the BERT model. But what does pre-training mean? Say we have a model, . First, we train the model with a huge dataset for a particular task and save the trained model. Now, for a new task, instead of initializing a new model with random weights, we will initialize the model with the weights of our already trained model, (pre-trained model). That is, since the model is already trained on a huge dataset, instead of training a new model from scratch for a new task, we use the pre-trained model, , and adjust (fine-tune) its weights according to the new task. This is a type of transfer learning.

The BERT model is pre-trained on a huge corpus using two interesting tasks, called masked language modeling and next sentence prediction. Following pre-training, we save the pre-trained BERT model. For a new task, say question answering, instead of training BERT from scratch, we will use the pre-trained BERT model. That...

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