Transformers

(NLP) revolutionized how we interact with technology. Do you remember when chatbots first appeared and appeared like robots? Thankfully, that’s prior to now! Transformer models have waved their magic wand and reshaped NLP tasks....

of my Machine Learning Advent Calendar. Before closing this series, I would really like to sincerely thank everyone who followed it, shared feedback, and supported it, specifically the Towards Data Science team. Ending this calendar...

Most languages use word position and sentence structure to extract meaning. For...

— that he saw further only by standing on the shoulders of giants — captures a timeless truth about science. Every breakthrough rests on countless layers of prior progress, until someday … all...

While working on my Knowledge Distillation problem for intent classification, I faced a puzzling roadblock. My setup involved a teacher model, which is RoBERTa-large (finetuned on my intent classification), and a student model, which...

! My name is Kirill Khrylchenko, and I lead the RecSys R&D team at Yandex. One in all our goals is to develop transformer technologies inside the context of recommender systems, an objective we’ve...

and Vision Model? Computer Vision is a subdomain in artificial intelligence with a big selection of applications specializing in image processing and understanding. Traditionally addressed through Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), this field has been...

Introduction the the state-of-the-art architecture for NLP and never only. Modern models like ChatGPT, Llama, and Gemma are based on this architecture introduced in 2017 within the Attention Is All You Need paper from...