🤯 Did You Know (click to read)
BERT can relate words across hundreds of tokens in a document due to its self-attention transformer architecture.
BERT’s transformer self-attention mechanism allows it to compute contextual relationships between all tokens in a sequence simultaneously. This capability enables the model to capture long-range dependencies, improving understanding of complex sentences, paragraphs, and documents. It outperforms traditional RNNs and LSTMs that struggle with distant token dependencies.
💥 Impact (click to read)
Understanding long-range dependencies improves NLP tasks such as question answering, summarization, and document classification. It allows more accurate interpretation of meaning and context across extended text.
For users, BERT provides outputs that reflect nuanced understanding over long passages. The irony is that this understanding is statistical rather than cognitive.
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