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Transformers

Transformers are the architecture behind GPT, BERT, and modern AI systems. This concept is locked until you strengthen your Deep Learning foundations. Once unlocked, you will cover attention mechanisms, positional encoding, and fine-tuning.

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Difficulty
Expert
Estimated Time6weeks — ~10 hrs/wk
Total Hours60hours of study
Practice Readiness0%

Why It Matters

Transformers are the architecture powering GPT, BERT, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and virtually every state-of-the-art AI system today. Understanding them means understanding the frontier of artificial intelligence.

Topics Included

8 topics
1Self-Attention
2Multi-Head Attention
3Positional Encoding
4Encoder-Decoder Architecture
5Layer Normalisation
6Feed-Forward Networks
7BERT & GPT Variants
8Fine-Tuning & Prompting

Applications

Large language models (GPT, Claude, Gemini)
Machine translation
Code generation
Image generation (ViT, DALL-E)

Prerequisites

Used In

NLP
Computer Vision
Robotics
Machine Learning

Your Next Step

Complete Deep Learning fundamentals to unlock this concept.

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