Generative Pre-trained Transformer(GPT)
Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a type of language model developed by OpenAI. It belongs to the family of transformer-based models, which have gained significant popularity for their effectiveness in natural language processing tasks. GPT is known for its ability to generate coherent and contextually relevant text, making it a powerful tool for various applications, including text generation, completion, and language understanding.
Here's an insight into how GPT works:
Transformer Architecture:
GPT is built on the transformer architecture, which was introduced in the paper "Attention is All You Need" by Vaswani et al. Transformers use self-attention mechanisms to capture long-range dependencies and relationships between words in a sequence, enabling them to model context effectively.
Pre-training:
The "Pre-trained" in GPT stands for the model being pre-trained on a large corpus of text data before fine-tuning for specific tasks. During pre-training, GPT learns to predict the next word in a sentence or sequence of words. This process helps the model capture syntactic, semantic, and contextual relationships within the language.
Generative Aspect:
GPT is a generative model, meaning that it can generate new text based on the patterns it learned during pre-training. Given a prompt or an initial sequence of words, GPT can continue generating coherent and contextually relevant text.