759: Full Encoder-Decoder Transformers Fully Explained, with Kirill Eremenko

Encoders, cross attention and masking for LLMs: SuperDataScience Founder Kirill Eremenko returns to the SuperDataScience podcast, where he speaks with Jon Krohn about transformer architectures and why they are a new frontier for generative AI. If you’re interested in applying LLMs to your business portfolio, you’ll want to pay close attention to this episode!

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In this episode you will learn:

• How decoder-only transformers work [15:51]

• How cross-attention works in transformers [41:05]

• How encoders and decoders work together (an example) [52:46]

• How encoder-only architectures excel at understanding natural language [1:20:34]

• The importance of masking during self-attention [1:27:08]

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