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BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

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In this second episode of AI Papers Explained, we explore BERT, the model that taught Transformers to truly understand human language.

Building upon the foundation laid by Attention Is All You Need, BERT introduced two key innovations:

  • Bidirectional Attention, allowing context comprehension from both directions.

  • Masked Language Modeling and Next Sentence Prediction, enabling deep semantic understanding.

Through this episode, you’ll discover how these mechanisms made BERT the backbone of modern NLP systems — from search engines to chatbots.

🎙️ Source:
Devlin, J., Chang, M.-W., Lee, K., & Toutanova, K. (2018). BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding. Google AI Language.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04805

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