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Generative AI
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Generative AI

by T V Geetha
January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 9m
English
Pearson India
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CHAPTER 9

Transformer Models

9.1 Introduction

In this chapter, we will be discussing task-specific generative models which are specifically designed for natural language processing and its applications. Initially, we will discuss word embedding, the vector representation of text and then go on to discuss contextual word embedding and sub-word representation. Then we go on to discuss the basic concepts associated with processing natural language including language models and neural language models. Then we discuss the encoder-decoder architecture for processing sequential data and finally discuss the basis of transformers, the attention mechanism and the incorporation of attention mechanism into the encoder-decoder architecture. Finally, we will ...

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