Exploring the Rise of Transformers and Their Impact on AI: A Deep Dive Introduction: The Revolution of Transformer Models The year 2018 marked a significant turning point in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), often referred to as the “ImageNet moment for NLP.” Since then, transformers have become the dominant architecture for various NLP tasks, largely due to their ability to process large amounts of data with astonishing efficiency. This blog post will take you through the history, evolution, and applications of transformer models, including breakthroughs like GPT, BERT, DALL·E, CLIP, Vision Transformers (ViTs), DeepSeek and more. We’ll explore both the theoretical concepts behind these models and their practical implementations using Hugging Face’s libraries. The Rise of Transformer Models in NLP In 2018, the introduction of the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) paper by Alec Radford and OpenAI was a game-changer for NLP. Unlike earlier methods like ELMo and ULMFiT, GPT used a transformer-based architecture for unsupervised pretraining, proving its effectiveness in learning from large datasets. The architecture involved a stack of 12 transformer modules, leveraging masked multi-head attention layers, which allowed it to process language efficiently. This model was revolutionary because it could pretrain on a vast corpus of…
The Transformer Model Revolution from GPT to DeepSeek & goes on How They’re Radically Changing the Future of AI – Day 65
