Natural Language Processing 2020 Discussion
summary
Panel assesses whether 2020’s transformer wave changes practice and gives concrete takeaways: model families and deployments named (BERT, RoBERTa, TinyBERT, Marian), inference tooling and optimizers discussed (Triton, ONNX Runtime, Turbo Transformers), interpretability libraries used (LIME, SHAP, Captum), surprising empirical notes like Roberta on 300 samples and a simple regex yielding 20% engagement lift, and system limits stated plainly (neuromorphic chips experimental, GPT-3 impractical to serve at scale).
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:18NLP Imagenet
- 7:50Interpretability
- 13:48Interpretation
- 18:01Challenges
- 24:14Transformerbased
- 25:42Neuromorphic architectures
- 29:18Neuromorphic hardware
- 31:37Running big models in production
- 36:14Future of NLP
- 38:03Question
- 46:05Bias
- 48:03One more question
- 49:09Personal experience
- 53:07Career effects
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