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Mastering Transformers

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Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801077651

Pages 374 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Mobile Application Development

Authors (2):

Savaş Yıldırım

Meysam Asgari- Chenaghlu

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

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

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

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Authors (2)

Savaş Yıldırım

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

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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