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Key concept coverage by chapter
Chapter Key concepts introduced
1 NLP Transfer Learning
2 Generalized Linear Models
3 Decision trees, random forests, gradient-boosting machines
4 word2vec, sent2vec, fastText, multitask learning, domain adaptation
5 Fake news detection, column-type classification
6 ELMo, SIMOn
7 Transformer, GPT, chatbot
8 BERT, mBERT, NSP, fine-tuning transformers, cross-lingual transfer
9 ULMFiT, DistilBERT, knowledge distillation, discriminative fine-tuning
10 ALBERT, GLUE, sequential adaptation
11 RoBERTa, GPT-3, XLNet, LongFormer, BART, T5, XLM
Transfer Learning for
Natural Language
Processing
PAUL AZUNRE
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