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Mastering Transformers

You're reading from   Mastering Transformers Build state-of-the-art models from scratch with advanced natural language processing techniques

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Savaş Yıldırım Savaş Yıldırım
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Savaş Yıldırım graduated from the Istanbul Technical University Department of Computer Engineering and holds a Ph.D. degree in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Currently, he is an associate professor at the Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, and is a visiting researcher at the Ryerson University, Canada. He is a proactive lecturer and researcher with more than 20 years of experience teaching courses on machine learning, deep learning, and NLP. He has significantly contributed to the Turkish NLP community by developing a lot of open source software and resources. He also provides comprehensive consultancy to AI companies on their R&D projects. In his spare time, he writes and directs short films, and enjoys practicing yoga.
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Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu is an AI manager at Carbon Consulting and is also a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tabriz. He has been a consultant for Turkey's leading telecommunication and banking companies. He has also worked on various projects, including natural language understanding and semantic search.
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Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction – Recent Developments in the Field, Installations, and Hello World Applications
2. Chapter 1: From Bag-of-Words to the Transformer FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: A Hands-On Introduction to the Subject 4. Section 2: Transformer Models – From Autoencoding to Autoregressive Models
5. Chapter 3: Autoencoding Language Models 6. Chapter 4:Autoregressive and Other 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. Section 3: Advanced Topics
11. Chapter 8: Working with Efficient Transformers 12. Chapter 9:Cross-Lingual and Multilingual Language Modeling 13. Chapter 10: Serving Transformer Models 14. Chapter 11: Attention Visualization and Experiment Tracking 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing Transformer with Anaconda

Anaconda is a distribution of the Python and R programming languages that makes package distribution and deployment easy for scientific computation. In this chapter, we will describe the installation of the Transformer library. However, it is also possible to install this library without the aid of Anaconda. The main motivation to use Anaconda is to explain the process more easily and moderate the packages used.

To start installing the related libraries, the installation of Anaconda is a mandatory step. Official guidelines provided by the Anaconda documentation offer simple steps to install it for common operating systems (macOS, Windows, and Linux).

Installation on Linux

Many distributions of Linux are available for users to enjoy, but among them, Ubuntu is one of the preferred ones. In this section, the steps to install Anaconda are covered for Linux. Proceed as follows:

  1. Download the Anaconda installer for Linux from https://www...
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Savaş Yıldırım graduated from the Istanbul Technical University Department of Computer Engineering and holds a Ph.D. degree in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Currently, he is an associate professor at the Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, and is a visiting researcher at the Ryerson University, Canada. He is a proactive lecturer and researcher with more than 20 years of experience teaching courses on machine learning, deep learning, and NLP. He has significantly contributed to the Turkish NLP community by developing a lot of open source software and resources. He also provides comprehensive consultancy to AI companies on their R&D projects. In his spare time, he writes and directs short films, and enjoys practicing yoga.
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