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Transformers have emerged as the state of the art neural network architecture for natural language processing and computer vision. In the foundation model paradigm, large transformer models (BERT, GPT3/4, Bloom, ViT) are pre-trained on…
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Introduction: Machine learning provides fundamental tools both for scientific research and for the development of technologies with significant impact on society. It provides methods that facilitate the discovery of regularities in data and…
Deep Learning is a state-of-the-art technique to make inference on extensive or complex data. As a black box model due to their multilayer nonlinear structure, Deep Neural Networks are often criticized to be non-transparent and their…
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