NLG Head to Toe
This is a gentle 3 hours tutorial on Natural language Generation using Neural Networks, the tutorial starts from the basics and assumes very little background on NLP and Machine Learning.
Content
Language Modeling
Recurrent Neural Networks
NLG Inference (Top-k and Nucleus Sampling, Greedy Decoding)
Language Model Evaluation ( Perplexity and Cross-Entropy)
Conditional Language Models
Attention is all you Need (Transformers)
Large Language Models and their dangers
Tutorial Instances
26 Feb. 2021 - CentraleSupélec & ESSEC, Paris, France
3 Dec 2021. - Hanoi University, Hà Nội, Vietnam
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