Transformer Explainer- Learn About Transformer With Visualization

Krish Naik · Beginner ·🧠 Large Language Models ·6:49 ·1y ago

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This video explains the Transformer architecture with visualization, covering token embedding, positional encoding, multi-head self-attention, and the Transformer block. It highlights the importance of understanding Transformers for learning generative AI and NLP.

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hello all my name is krishak and welcome to my YouTube channel so guys uh in this specific video I have found this amazing website which will actually help you understand about Transformer completely in depth okay uh now why Transformers are important because I know everybody is interested in learning generative a I hope you are specifically learning and this is this topic is one of the prerequisite before you go ahead and start um generative AI when I probably talk about prerequisits I'm just not talking about Transformers but the entire NLP in deep learning right you need to definitely know how does RNN work how does lstm RNN work how does grn Works how do encoder decoder Works how does attention uh is all you need you basically need to understand about the research paper and many more things and finally you basically go ahead with the Transformer and most of the llm model has the basic architecture with respect to the Transformer right and if you probably go ahead and check my generative AI course with Lang chain here I have covered each and everything the prerequisite with respect to uh the Deep learning NLP the machine learning NLP and then we have probably gone ahead and we have implemented multiple Solutions not only that I've also started uploading videos with respect to langra and I'm still designing some amazing projects which can be added over here so all those things are specifically doing that right and if you have not checked it out please go ahead and check it out and if you really want to learn machine learning from Basics then I have my this udmi course which is complete machine learning NLP boot camp mlops and deployment here from NLP from machine learning to Advanced NLP techniques both in deep learning I have actually covered it now uh this is just one of the materials that I had actually prepared for my course and even in my YouTube channel I've taken this particular I've explained the about Transformers but this uh materials that you'll be seeing is completely in depth they are around 33 Pages which I've explained each and every working of this particular Transformer now additionally to this you know I've taken multiple examples also here but additionally to this I have also found out this amazing website which provides more thorough explanation with respect to visualization that is the reason I'm actually sharing it to you because I know everybody and many people have specifically asked me this particular question Krish do you have something related to visualization with respect to the Transformer how does the Transformer actually work right so that is the reason I'm actually coming up with this particular video uh this is just to help you out so that you can actually prepare well and this all explanation will be super important when you attend the interviews when you're probably learning about llms or when you're developing generative a application because that are the prerequisites now with respect to this Transformers here you'll be able to see all the explanation is also given step by step which is really good but I'm really really much excited with respect to this visualization now if you know about Transformers the first step basically whenever we have the words we perform to token embedding then we go ahead with positional en encoding and after we do this positional encoding why positional encoding is basically used because we need to order this particular words right which word has actually come come first which mod has actually come second so that is the reason you can actually see positions over here right then U after this you go ahead and uh train this multi-head self attention wherein you create this uh Q KV metrix right Q basically means query K basically means key and value basically means um the values uh value metrix itself right and here you specifically do this for 12 heads in the architecture in the research paper it is basically given 12 Heads This is just one of the head right so if you probably just go ahead and hover over here you can see actually how the calculation is basically done right and this is the formula that is applied e e ID W DJ plus BJ is equal to and you basically go ahead and calculate the qkv parameters right or metric and this will be very important because as soon as you go ahead and just search for data let's say if I go Ahad and hover over here right so here when I'm hovering over here two lines are basically getting highlighted one is data and the next word that is visualization so for this data and the next word visualization the correlated metrix what I can see is 084 right similarly with respect to all the other values you'll be able to see over here and this is how entirely it is trained and this is just one headed tension like that you have 12 headed tensions right so once this is done then you go to the next step in the next step you basically go ahead and create this multi-layered uh neural network so here you have this this is your residuals uh you can probably see the entire calculation how things are basically basically happening then you can see with respect to each and every token probabilities how it is basically computed and with respect to a word like data visualization empowers users to create so here your create output is basically coming up right other than than create you can also get visualized because the percentage of the softmax is very high right so like this you will be definitely able to see each and every visualization how things are actually happening over here how the dot product is basically happening how things are basically getting calculated inside this see after getting the dot product you do scaling masking and then you apply softmax plus Dropout right so many things are specifically happening step by step you'll be able to see it this and this you will only be able to understand when at least you know some working of the Transformers again the main reason of creating this particular video was to make you just provide some additional things so that you can learn this entire technique well right so one key thing that I will tell you while you're learning this please make sure that you learn along with this and you have to make sure you read all these things right if you're reading all these things trust me each and every step you'll be able to understand because here also everything is basically happening see here data visualization empowers users to this the first step is token emitting positional encoding you get some values then you perform tokenization positional encoding and you get the final emitting then you have the Transformer block where you create the multi-head attention where you have this key Cube uh uh key query key and value matrices and then you add with a bias you finally get this right so each token embedding Vector is transformed into query key and values these vectors are derived by multiplying ining Matrix with the learn Matrix from Q K and B right and it's just like a web search like how in YouTube we search something and it'll just go ahead and take that query search from all the keys and retri you the values right so all these things are there then you have this Mass self attention how things are basically happening step by step you just go ahead and read step by step and let me know whether you are able to understand or not yes other than that uh you know that I have lot of courses in Udi which are very affordable just $3.99 rupees you can go ahead and check it out in the description uh the best order of learning my course will be from mathematics then you have this um machine learning NLP then you have this generative AI then you have this data analy boot cam so you can go ahead and read with respect to this so yes this was it from my side I will see you in the next video thank you

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This video provides an in-depth explanation of the Transformer architecture, including visualization, to help learners understand the concept and its importance in generative AI and NLP. It covers the step-by-step process of token embedding, positional encoding, and multi-head self-attention.

Key Takeaways
  1. Token Embedding
  2. Positional Encoding
  3. Multi-Head Self-Attention
  4. Transformer Block
  5. Read Research Papers
  6. Learn NLP and Deep Learning Concepts
💡 Understanding the Transformer architecture is crucial for learning generative AI and NLP, and visualization can help learners grasp the concept more effectively.

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