Advanced NLP: Introduction to Transformer Models

Skillsoft issued completion badges are earned based on viewing the percentage required or receiving a passing score when assessment is required. With recent advancements in cheap GPU compute power and natural language processing (NLP) research, companies and researchers have introduced many powerful models and architectures that have taken NLP to new heights. In this course, learn about Transformer models like Bert and GPT and the maturity of AI in NLP areas due to these models. Next, examine the fundamentals of Transformer models and their architectures. Finally, discover the importance of attention mechanisms in the Transformer architecture and how they help achieve state-of-the-art results in NLP tasks. Upon completing this course, you'll be able to understand different aspects of Transformer architectures like the self-attention layer and encoder-decoder models.