Building a Transformer Model for Language Translation
This post is divided into six parts; they are: • Why Transformer is Better than Seq2Seq • Data Preparation and Tokenization • Design of a Transformer Model • Building the Transformer Model • Causal Mask and Padding Mask • Training and Evaluation Traditional seq2seq models with recurrent neural networks have two main limitations: • Sequential processing prevents parallelization • Limited ability to capture long-term dependencies since hidden states are overwritten whenever an element is processed The Transformer architecture, introduced in the 2017 paper “Attention is All You Need”, overcomes these limitations.
This post is divided into five parts; they are: • From a Full Transformer to a Decoder-Only Model • Building a Decoder-Only Model • Data Preparation for Self-Supervised Learning • Training the Model • Extensions The transformer model originated as a sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model that converts an input sequence into…
This article is divided into three parts; they are: • Full Transformer Models: Encoder-Decoder Architecture • Encoder-Only Models • Decoder-Only Models The original transformer architecture, introduced in "Attention is All You Need," combines an encoder and decoder specifically designed for sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) tasks like machine translation.
This post is divided into four parts; they are: • Why Attnetion Matters: Limitations of Basic Seq2Seq Models • Implementing Seq2Seq Model with Attention • Training and Evaluating the Model • Using the Model Traditional seq2seq models use an encoder-decoder architecture where the encoder compresses the input sequence into a…