{"id":173828,"date":"2023-10-09T09:26:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T14:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/transformers-intuitively-and-exhaustively-explained"},"modified":"2023-10-09T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T14:26:29","slug":"transformers-intuitively-and-exhaustively-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/transformers-intuitively-and-exhaustively-explained","title":{"rendered":"Transformers \u2014 Intuitively and Exhaustively Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transformers-intuitively-and-exhaustively-explained.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this post you will learn about the transformer architecture, which is at the core of the architecture of nearly all cutting-edge large language models. We\u2019ll start with a brief chronology of some relevant natural language processing concepts, then we\u2019ll go through the transformer step by step and uncover how it works.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">Who is this useful for? <\/strong>Anyone interested in natural language processing (NLP).<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">How advanced is this post? <\/strong>This is not a complex post, but there are a lot of concepts, so it might be daunting to less experienced data scientists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this post you will learn about the transformer architecture, which is at the core of the architecture of nearly all cutting-edge large language models. We\u2019ll start with a brief chronology of some relevant natural language processing concepts, then we\u2019ll go through the transformer step by step and uncover how it works. Who is this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}