Transformers for beginners | What are they and how do they work

This week we’re looking into transformers. Transformers were introduced a couple of years ago with the paper Attention is All You Need by Google Researchers. Since its introduction transformers has been widely adopted in the industry.
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Models like BERT, GPT-3 made groundbreaking improvements in the world of NLP using transformers. Since then model libraries like hugging face made it possible for everyone to use transformer based models in their projects. But what are transformers and how do they work? How are they different from other deep learning models like RNNs, LSTMs? Why are they better?
In this video, we learn about it all!
Some of my favorite resources on Transformers:
The original paper - arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf
If you’re interested in following the original paper with the code - nlp.seas.harvard.edu/2018/04/0...
The Illustrated Transformer - jalammar.github.io/illustrate...
Blog about positional encodings - kazemnejad.com/blog/transform...
About attention - Visualizing A Neural Machine Translation Model - jalammar.github.io/visualizin...
Layer normalization - arxiv.org/abs/1607.06450
Some images used in this video are from:
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  • @ashermai2962
    @ashermai29622 жыл бұрын

    This channel deserves more views and likes

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Asher!

  • @sarc007

    @sarc007

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree

  • @pierluigiurru962
    @pierluigiurru9627 ай бұрын

    This is clearest explanation of transformers I’ve found so far, and I personally have seen many trying to wrap my head around them. No skimming over details. Very well done!

  • @testing3562
    @testing35625 ай бұрын

    I am a programmer, I have created many tools that were actually very useful. I even claim that I have 10+ years experience. But I feel very bad to realize that I am so dumb that I did not understand anything after the first 10 minutes of the video.

  • @sebastianmata9603

    @sebastianmata9603

    Ай бұрын

    They explain it with apples and pears but is actually a very mathematical and elaborated process, if you're not the kind of person that can remember easily how work the sine and cosine functions and do matrix multiplication for fun, is just a little bit harder to get it

  • @moonlight-td8ed

    @moonlight-td8ed

    Ай бұрын

    BRUH JUST REWATCH IT AGAIN... THE VIDEO IS A 10/10

  • @andybrice2711
    @andybrice2711Ай бұрын

    Positional encodings are not that weird when you think of them as being similar to the hands on a clock: It's a way of representing arbitrarily long periods of time, within a confined space, with smooth continuous movement and no sudden jumps. Picture the tips of clock hands. Their vertical position follows a sine wave, their horizontal position follows a cosine wave. And we add precision with more hands moving at different speeds.

  • @stevemassicotte4068
    @stevemassicotte4068 Жыл бұрын

    @16:14,, the binary table is wrong, there are two sevens. The second column should start with 8 and not a second 7. Attention is all you need ;) Thanks for the video !

  • @BCSEbadulIslam

    @BCSEbadulIslam

    3 ай бұрын

    Came here to comment the same 👍

  • @moeal5110
    @moeal51108 ай бұрын

    This is most clear and resourceful video I've seen. Thank you for your hard work and for sharing these resources

  • @Yaddu143
    @Yaddu143 Жыл бұрын

    I really want you talk about attention. Thank you, shinning in this video.

  • @yourshanky
    @yourshanky11 ай бұрын

    Excellent explanation !! Sharp and clear. Thanks for sharing this.

  • @sivad2895
    @sivad28958 ай бұрын

    The best video on transformer architecture with great explanations and charming presentation.

  • @reshamgaire4188
    @reshamgaire41888 ай бұрын

    Finally found a perfect video that cleared all my confusions. Thank you so much ma'am, may god bless you 🙏

  • @bdoriandasilva
    @bdoriandasilva Жыл бұрын

    Great video with a clear explanation. thank you!

  • @anandanv2361
    @anandanv2361 Жыл бұрын

    The way you explained the concept was awesome. It is very easy to follow.👍

  • @nikhilshrestha4711
    @nikhilshrestha4711 Жыл бұрын

    really love how you described the model. easier to understand 🙌

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @moonlight-td8ed
    @moonlight-td8edАй бұрын

    cleanest and most informative video ever.. covered whole attention is all you need paper in 19 mins.. damn.. thank you MISRA TURP and assembly ai

  • @GeorgeZoto
    @GeorgeZoto8 ай бұрын

    Great and both low and high level descprition of transformers, thank you for creating this useful resource :)

  • @mudasserqayyom9947
    @mudasserqayyom9947Ай бұрын

    I'm watching lot of videos of Transformers, But that is exactly I want. Thank You So Much Ma'am. And also AssemblyAl.

  • @mohamadhasanzeinali3674
    @mohamadhasanzeinali3674 Жыл бұрын

    I saw numerous videos about Transformers architecture. In my opinion, your video is the best among them. Appreciate that.

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, that is great to hear. :)

  • @dannown
    @dannown Жыл бұрын

    This is a really lovely video -- very specific and detailed, but also followable. Thanks!

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @abinav92
    @abinav92 Жыл бұрын

    Best video on intro to transformers!!!

  • @pyaephyo3633
    @pyaephyo363310 ай бұрын

    i love it. Your explanation is easy to understand.

  • @kalyandey5195
    @kalyandey51953 ай бұрын

    Awesome!! crystal clear explanation!!!

  • @dooseobkim2100
    @dooseobkim210010 ай бұрын

    You are my savior for being actually able to get ready to read all of those AI related papers which I’m completely unaware of. I was stuck at the part of my thesis which I have to provide theoretical background of ChatGPT. As a business student I’m super grateful to learn these knowledges in computer science through your short lecture👍👍

  • @nikhil182
    @nikhil182 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much!💓this has to be the best introduction video to Transformers. We are planning to use Transformers for our Video Processing project.

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @otsogileonalepelo9610
    @otsogileonalepelo9610 Жыл бұрын

    Just WOW! You broke down these concepts nicely. Thank you. Live long and prosper 🖖🖖

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @amitsingh7684
    @amitsingh768422 күн бұрын

    very nicely explained with clear details

  • @PeterKoman
    @PeterKoman Жыл бұрын

    Finally a transformer video that actually explains the theory in understandable way. Many thanks.

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    That's great to hear, thank you Peter!

  • @malayali_thaaram

    @malayali_thaaram

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes!!! I agree! Finally!

  • @goelnikhils
    @goelnikhils Жыл бұрын

    Amazing Explanation. Vow. Thanks a lot

  • @maryammoradbeigi6690
    @maryammoradbeigi6690 Жыл бұрын

    Incredible explanation on the transformer... Amazing video. Thanks a lot

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad you liked it!

  • @donevo1
    @donevo1 Жыл бұрын

    very nice presentation! in 12:18 you say that attention is on 8 words. from reading the paper I think that attention is on ALL the words, and 8 is the number of heads: each word vector (D=512) is split to 8, i.e vector dimention in each head is 64.

  • @sanketdeshmukh491
    @sanketdeshmukh491 Жыл бұрын

    Thank You for in depth explanation. Kudos!!!

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    You're very welcome!

  • @carlosroquesuarezgurruchag8681
    @carlosroquesuarezgurruchag8681 Жыл бұрын

    Thx for the time. Very clear the explanation

  • @imagnihton2
    @imagnihton2 Жыл бұрын

    This made the concept sound incredibly simple compared to some other sources... Amazing!

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    Great to hear, thank you!

  • @bysedova
    @bysedova8 ай бұрын

    Please make a detailed video about self-attantion! Thank you for your explanation! I like you haven't used difficult math terms and you have tried to explain for understanding with easy material supply.

  • @shubham-pp4cw
    @shubham-pp4cw2 жыл бұрын

    clear explanation of quiet complex topic and explained easily in shorted period time

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad to hear you liked it!

  • @vivekpetrolhead
    @vivekpetrolhead5 ай бұрын

    Best explanation for beginners I've seen besides statquest

  • @geekyprogrammer4831
    @geekyprogrammer4831 Жыл бұрын

    This high quality video deserves a lot more views!

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @archowdhury007
    @archowdhury00710 ай бұрын

    Beautifully explained. Loved it. First time I understood the transformer model so easily. Great work. Please keep creating more such content. Thanks.

  • @hussainsalih3520
    @hussainsalih3520 Жыл бұрын

    amazing keep doing this amazing tutorials :)

  • @Zulu369
    @Zulu369 Жыл бұрын

    This video is the best technical explanation I have seen in years. Although Transformers are a breakthrough in the field in NLP, I am convinced that they do not describe completely and satisfactorily, the way humans process language. For all civilizations, spoken language predates written language in communications. Those who do not read and write, still communicate clearly with others. This means humans do not represent natural language in their brains in terms of words, syntax and position of tokens but rather in terms of symbols, images and multimedia shows that make up stories we relate to. Written language comes only later as an extra layer of communication to express transparently these internal representations that we carry within ourselves. If AI is able to access and decode these internal representations, then the written language, the extra layer, becomes a lot easier to understand, organize, and put on paper with simple techniques rather than using these intricate Transformers that I consider as temporary and unnatural ways of describing natural languages.

  • @rokljhui864

    @rokljhui864

    11 ай бұрын

    Your idea is represented above , in words, existing separately from your mind. Surely most intelligence is contained within written language, mathematical expression and images.

  • @Zulu369

    @Zulu369

    11 ай бұрын

    @@rokljhui864 As I explained above, written words make up THE extra layer that is actually not necessary once you learn more persuasive communications techniques.

  • @evetsnilrac9689

    @evetsnilrac9689

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@rokljhui864 "Surely" is not how you start an intelligent hypothesis. You must explain the rationale for your belief since it is not at all readily apparent that the intelligence to process written language was not already in our brains so that we could conceive of and learn written language.

  • @evetsnilrac9689

    @evetsnilrac9689

    6 ай бұрын

    This is a crucial point to understand for all of us interested in fully harnessing what we perceive to be the true potential of this technology. I would start with the Adamic symbol-based language.

  • @jayanthkothapalli9.2
    @jayanthkothapalli9.210 ай бұрын

    Great work mam. You made it simple to understand.

  • @wasifrock687
    @wasifrock687 Жыл бұрын

    very well explained. thank you!

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @_joshwalter_
    @_joshwalter_10 ай бұрын

    This is phenomenal!

  • @VaibhavPatil-rx7pc
    @VaibhavPatil-rx7pc10 ай бұрын

    smile and learn and clean explaniation!!!

  • @krishnakumarik208
    @krishnakumarik2086 ай бұрын

    VERY GOOD EXPLANATION.

  • @amigospot
    @amigospot2 жыл бұрын

    Nice video for a fairly complex architecture!

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Hyder! - Mısra

  • @juliennoel3061
    @juliennoel30613 ай бұрын

    hi! oh yeah please a specific video on 'attention' 🙂 - And also : 'great job you are doing! Congrats! Thumbs !!'

  • @rodi4850
    @rodi4850 Жыл бұрын

    best explanation!

  • @devraj241
    @devraj24111 ай бұрын

    great video, well explained!

  • @near_.

    @near_.

    11 ай бұрын

    What's the purpose of output embedding?? What are we feeding in that???

  • @user-fp5sx2vr4z
    @user-fp5sx2vr4z11 ай бұрын

    Thank you for the presentation, it has been so insightful. I wish you made a video about the word embeddings of the transformers. Thanks

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    11 ай бұрын

    Great suggestion!

  • @salamander7715
    @salamander77159 ай бұрын

    Seeing all the comments of people saying that this video made things simple just makes me feel stupid ahah! This video is amazing and the explanations are great, but i can't say i've understood more then 35% of the concepts. I'll have to watch this several times for sure

  • @keithwins
    @keithwins4 ай бұрын

    Thank you that was excellent

  • @thebiggerpicture__
    @thebiggerpicture__ Жыл бұрын

    Great video. Thanks!

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    You're welcome :)

  • @talktovipin1
    @talktovipin13 ай бұрын

    Very nice explanation. Incorporating animations into the images while explaining would enhance comprehension and make it even more beneficial.

  • @AddisuSeteye
    @AddisuSeteye Жыл бұрын

    Amazing explanation. I can't wait to watch your explanation on another AI related topic.

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    More to come!

  • @MrTheyosyos
    @MrTheyosyos Жыл бұрын

    "attentions for beginners" will be great :)

  • @rufus9322
    @rufus9322 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your video 🤗 How to understanding more details about word embedding method in Transformer model?

  • @0Tyr
    @0Tyr2 жыл бұрын

    Very informative channel, and well presented..

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! - Mısra

  • @JayTheMachine
    @JayTheMachine8 ай бұрын

    thank you soo much, damn, love your explainations

  • @6001navi
    @6001navi10 ай бұрын

    awesome explanation

  • @kartikgadad9285
    @kartikgadad92856 ай бұрын

    Thanks for explaining Transformers, can we have a video on Embeddings, seems super interesting. The Positional Encoding part was difficult to understand, as it has been just taken from abstract level, can we find better video on positional encoding?

  • @niyatisrivastava4-yearb.te820
    @niyatisrivastava4-yearb.te8205 ай бұрын

    best explanation

  • @wenshufan
    @wenshufan11 ай бұрын

    Thank you for explaining the transformer in detail. However, I still don't get how do you train the Q,K,V matrix. The attention mechanism is calculated by from them. What type of feedback/truth can one use to train those matrix values then?

  • @nogur9
    @nogur910 ай бұрын

    Thanks :)

  • @lexflow2319
    @lexflow2319 Жыл бұрын

    I don't understand why there are 6 decoders and encoders. The diagram shows 1 each. Also, what is the output as input to the decoder. Is that the last output from final softmax

  • @rokljhui864
    @rokljhui86411 ай бұрын

    Interesting. Sounds like a Fourier transform; Obtaining a frequency distribution from a time-series, reveals the underlying frequency components and amplitudes. Are you essentially distilling the 'word cycles' from the sentences to obtain meaning from the word patterns across different word combination lengths (from single word to many thousand) And, optimising the predictability of the next word automatically optimises for the appropriate word combination lengths, that align with actual meaning. i.e Understanding 'peaks' are optimised similar to the fundamental frequencies in a Fourier transform. ?

  • @user-tt6tg3eb7n
    @user-tt6tg3eb7n7 ай бұрын

    I overall liked the video a lot. I just do not thing is enough to understand the whole concept. Especially masked multi head attention layer was missing and how the actually outcome of the model is created (translation etc)

  • @actorjohanmatsfredkarlsson2293
    @actorjohanmatsfredkarlsson2293 Жыл бұрын

    Great video. I’m missing how the attation layers: queries, keys and values and the output weights are trainee? Also what was the values matrix for?

  • @MrAmgadHasan

    @MrAmgadHasan

    Жыл бұрын

    They are trained just like any neural network: we have a loss function that compares the model's output with the desired output, and then this loss is propagated backwards to the weights and biases and we use gradient descent to update the weights. Lookup "back propagation" for more info or just look up"how neural networks are trained"

  • @user-ft2jx8io9g
    @user-ft2jx8io9g8 ай бұрын

    geart work, may allah bless you and guide you 🥰🥰😍😍

  • @abrahamowos
    @abrahamowos Жыл бұрын

    A question @ 11:30 : if for instance the values v are really large and you multiple them by the results from the softmax layer. Won't the resulting weighted be too high after adding them together?

  • @JackoMcW

    @JackoMcW

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure I understand your question or what you mean by "too high," but consider that all of those softmax values will be

  • @andersonsystem2
    @andersonsystem22 жыл бұрын

    Good video

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    2 жыл бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it :)

  • @mbrochh82
    @mbrochh82 Жыл бұрын

    I wish someone would explain how exactly the backpropagation works and what values exactly get nudged and tweaked during learning (and by which means)

  • @kellenswain2049
    @kellenswain204911 ай бұрын

    11:06 from reading the paper, 64 is not the square root of the length of QKV vectors, it looks like it is d_model/h where h is the number of heads used in multihead attention. And so then I assume d_model is the length of the QKV vectors?

  • @RAZZKIRAN
    @RAZZKIRAN Жыл бұрын

    thank u

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    You're welcome!

  • @ankit9401
    @ankit94012 жыл бұрын

    You are awesome and I appreciate your efforts. After watching your video, I can say now I understand the transformer architecture. I have a query. According to original BERT paper, two objectives used during training: Masked Language Model and Next Sentence Prediction. Are these training objectives present in original or all transformer models or they are specifically used for BERT ? I hope you make video to explain attention and BERT model in future 😊

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great to hear the video was helpful Ankit! These are not the tasks that were in the original transformer model. But I think they are not specific to BERT. Other architectures also use same/similar tasks to train their models. We have a BERT video in the channel by the way. Here it is: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aJWc2rKNfL3ehZs.html - Mısra

  • @strongsyedaa7378

    @strongsyedaa7378

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AssemblyAI So instead of using RNN & LSTM we directly use Transformers?

  • @wp1300
    @wp130011 ай бұрын

    13:35 Positional encoding

  • @near_.

    @near_.

    11 ай бұрын

    What's the purpose of output embedding?? What are we feeding in that???

  • @amparoconsuelo9451
    @amparoconsuelo94518 ай бұрын

    I have read books and watched videos on Transformers. I still don't understand Transformers. I want to order from Amazon an assembly Transformer kit, work on it and have a Transformer I understand the way I undestand how Lotus 123 and Wordstar were created.

  • @manjz7hm
    @manjz7hm5 ай бұрын

    You explained well , but my brain not digesting it 😂

  • @near_.
    @near_.11 ай бұрын

    What's the purpose of output embedding?? What are we feeding in that???

  • @user-bu3ds4dc6d
    @user-bu3ds4dc6d8 ай бұрын

    easiest explanation.

  • @guimaraesalysson
    @guimaraesalysson Жыл бұрын

    Theres any video about attention mechanism ?

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    Not yet but it's a good idea!

  • @EmanueleOlivetti
    @EmanueleOlivetti5 ай бұрын

    Around 16:00 the binary representation repeats twice 7 so the right part of the binary encoded numbers is incorrect

  • @nirmesh44
    @nirmesh444 ай бұрын

    make attention video

  • @titusfx
    @titusfx11 ай бұрын

    I'm still concern how all these papers don't have any mathematical rigour, there isn't one theorem, there is nothing. And it works....🤯 I can't imagine when the rigourosity start coming in, what would be the results. I'm starting to believe that deep learning is Physics for knowledge 😅

  • @denwo1982
    @denwo19822 ай бұрын

    Chatgpt “explain this video to me as if I was an 8 year old”

  • @marcfruchtman9473
    @marcfruchtman9473 Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting and informative. Thank you for providing a very detailed explanation of Transformers. One note: The word "Query" is pronounced like Qw-eerie (USA English). The beginning sounds sort of like the sound of "Quarry", or "Quack" but rhyming with dearie.

  • @NielsSwimberghe
    @NielsSwimberghe3 ай бұрын

    "You might need to watch this multiple times". You don't say. 😅

  • @M7mdal7aj
    @M7mdal7aj8 ай бұрын

    thanks but the explanation is not detailed enough. but nice explanation for the positional embedding. thanks

  • @roshanverma1123
    @roshanverma112310 ай бұрын

    Great simplified content! Thanks! Btw, you look beautiful!

  • @JaredEdwardsPM
    @JaredEdwardsPM Жыл бұрын

    I feel like you just described how a ouija board works…

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    Comment of the year :D

  • @robl39
    @robl39 Жыл бұрын

    What is disappointing about this video is that you have to know about or understand 50 other concepts first

  • @frizzsupertramp6434
    @frizzsupertramp6434 Жыл бұрын

    At 16:44 the binary representations on the right side are wrong (number 7 comes twice, should start with 8 on the right side). (Sorry for being anal 😀)

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the heads up! Video editing gets tedious sometimes :)

  • @prdeshnaser5297
    @prdeshnaser52973 ай бұрын

    needs pauses in speech, after 15min all i hear is a vector of blblblahs. a good video and human illustration of how text gets generated by machines, but that is not the point.

  • @homeboundrecords6955
    @homeboundrecords6955 Жыл бұрын

    knowledgable but not exactly 'beginner' level lol

  • @AssemblyAI

    @AssemblyAI

    Жыл бұрын

    To some it sounds too simple and to some too complex. 🤷‍♀️ Problem with AI topics these days. :D

  • @strongsyedaa7378
    @strongsyedaa7378 Жыл бұрын

    Why YOU divided by 8?

  • @verystablegenius4720
    @verystablegenius47208 ай бұрын

    bad ... just bad. you need to put 100X the time if you want to do this right. No real understanding here.

  • @open_source
    @open_source Жыл бұрын

    The presentation is nice but are you really trying to compress video time by talking faster? Had to stop the video multiple times to Focus on each concept

  • @sevovo
    @sevovo10 ай бұрын

    Why is the first think I thought is that she must be Turkish? :D

  • @berkk1993
    @berkk199311 ай бұрын

    Idk who she is but I am sure she is Turkish.

  • @PrabhatKumar-fn4vy
    @PrabhatKumar-fn4vy Жыл бұрын

    You are beautiful

  • @dlbattle100
    @dlbattle100 Жыл бұрын

    Carry, kiw, and matresses.