Stanford CS25: V1 I Transformers United: DL Models that have revolutionized NLP, CV, RL

Since their introduction in 2017, transformers have revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP). Now, transformers are finding applications all over Deep Learning, be it computer vision (CV), reinforcement learning (RL), Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Speech or even Biology. Among other things, transformers have enabled the creation of powerful language models like GPT-3 and were instrumental in DeepMind's recent AlphaFold2, that tackles protein folding. In this speaker series, we examine the details of how transformers work, and dive deep into the different kinds of transformers and how they're applied in different fields. We do this by inviting people at the forefront of transformers research across different domains for guest lectures. More about the course can be found here: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs25/ View the entire CS25 Transformers United playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rNiJRchCzutFw5ItR_Z27CM 0:00 Introduction 2:43 Overview of Transformers 6:03 Attention mechanisms 7:53 Self retention 11:38 Other necessary ingredients 13:32 Encoder Decoder Architecture 16:02 Advantages & Disadvantages 18:04 Applications of Transformers