Transformers: Beyond Language, Reshaping Reality
Transformer models have revolutionized the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and are rapidly impacting various other domains like computer vision, speech recognition, and even scientific computing. Their ability to handle long-range dependencies and process information in parallel has made them the go-to architecture for many state-of-the-art models. But what exactly are transformer models, and why are they so powerful? Let's dive into the world of attention mechanisms, encoder-decoder structures, and pre-training techniques that make these models tick.
Understanding the Transformer Architecture
The transformer architecture, introduced in the groundbreaking paper "Attention is All You Need," marked a significant departure from recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and convolutional neu...







