Transformer Models Courses and Certifications

Simons Institute

Knowledge Is Embedded in Language Neural Networks but Can They Reason?

Explore language models' reasoning capabilities, from n-grams to transformers, and discuss future research directions in neural state machines for improved natural language understanding.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Scalable Parallel Computing Lab, SPCL @ ETH Zurich

A Chiplet-Based Generative Inference Architecture with Block Floating Point Datatypes

Explore a chiplet-based architecture for generative inference, featuring block floating point datatypes and optimizations for large language models in AI accelerated computing.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Sam Witteveen

Introducing the Qwen 3 Family - Overview and Key Features

Explore the Qwen 3 Family of language models, their key features, training methodology, and implementation through Hugging Face and chat.qwen.ai in this informative overview.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Open Data Science

ODSC East 2022 Keynote by Luis Vargas, Ph.D. - The Big Wave of AI at Scale

Explore the trend of larger AI models, their growing capabilities, and impact on language, vision, and multi-modality. Learn about research, engineering efforts, and implications for companies.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Open Data Science

Riding the Tailwind of NLP Explosion

Explore NLP's evolution, from prehistoric to modern era, and learn practical applications, challenges, and strategies for leveraging transformers and open-source tools in data science projects.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Toronto Machine Learning Series (TMLS)

Natural Language Processing for Automated ESG Portfolio Construction

Explore NLP techniques for automated ESG portfolio construction, combining machine learning with portfolio optimization to incorporate ESG performance views from news data.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

USC Information Sciences Institute

Do Androids Know They're Only Dreaming of Electric Sheep?

Explore transformer language models' internal representations to detect and analyze hallucinatory behavior in AI-generated content, with insights on task-dependent patterns and evaluation methods.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Transformer-based Reasoning for Learning Evolutionary Chain of Events on Temporal Knowledge Graphs

Explore transformer-based reasoning for learning evolutionary event chains on temporal knowledge graphs, enhancing understanding of complex temporal relationships.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Databricks

Pretraining and Finetuning a Transformer Model for Location Resolution

Aprenda a criar um modelo personalizado de resolução de localização usando Databricks e Hugging Face, abordando criação de datasets, pré-treinamento, ajuste fino e considerações de implantação.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Center for Language & Speech Processing(CLSP), JHU

Towards Large Language Models as Proposal Functions in a Neuro-Symbolic Expert System - 2022

Explore a reasoning system using neural language modeling for structured text-based proofs of science facts, combining classic inference engines with modern AI techniques.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Center for Language & Speech Processing(CLSP), JHU

Five Short Pieces on Neural Machine Translation of Text and Speech - Lecture

Explore five research contributions in neural machine translation, covering morphologically rich languages, low-resource settings, terminology integration, speech recognition error robustness, and translation length control.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Center for Language & Speech Processing(CLSP), JHU

Cross-layer Models for Low-Resource Conversational ASR

Discover cross-layer models integrating pronunciation and prosodic variation for conversational ASR, especially effective in low-resource settings and applications in healthcare.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Center for Language & Speech Processing(CLSP), JHU

Cross-Layer Models for Low-Resource Conversational ASR

Explore cross-layer models integrating pronunciation and prosodic variation for conversational ASR, especially effective in low-resource settings and healthcare applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Yannic Kilcher

Synthesizer - Rethinking Self-Attention in Transformer Models

Explores alternative attention mechanisms in Transformer models, proposing the Synthesizer model that learns synthetic attention weights without token-token interactions, showing competitive performance across various NLP tasks.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

HuggingFace

A Gentle Visual Intro to Transformer Models

Explore key concepts of Transformer models, including encoder, decoder, and attention, through a visual and accessible explanation by ML expert Jay Alammar.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video