Transformer Architecture Explained | Attention Is All You Need | Foundation of BERT, GPT-3, RoBERTa

This video explains the Transformer architecture in a very detailed way, including most math formulas in the paper, and the neural network operations behind it. The Transformer is the foundation of many powerful language models like BERT, GPT3, RoBERTa, XLNET, ELECTRA, T5. Understanding how it works in detail might help you modify, optimize, or improve it in the way you want.

0:00 - Intro 1:10 - Architecture overview 1:56 - Encoder 3:58 - Residual connection & layer normalization 6:59 - Decoder 11:14 - Attention mechanism 14:30 - Scaled dot-product attention 20:22 - Learned projection layers 26:32 - Multi-head attention 28-39 - Encoder-decoder attention 31:18 - Encoder self-attention 31:34 - Decoder self-attention 33:58 - Position-wise feedforward network 36:41 - Word embedding 39:34 - Positional encoding 47:37 - Why self-attention

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Paper: Attention Is All You Need https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

Abstract

The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks that include an encoder and a decoder. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train. Our model achieves 28.4 BLEU on the WMT 2014 English- to-German translation task, improving over the existing best results, including ensembles, by over 2 BLEU. On the WMT 2014 English-to-French translation task, our model establishes a new single-model state-of-the-art BLEU score of 41.0 after training for 3.5 days on eight GPUs, a small fraction of the training costs of the best models from the literature. We show that the Transformer generalizes well to other tasks by applying it successfully to English constituency parsing both with large and limited training data. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELTGIye424E