VECTORIZATION FUNDAMENTALS
Introduction to Text Vectorization
Converting Human Language into Machine Understandable Numbers
Key Idea
Humans understand words and sentences.
Computers understand only numbers.
Therefore, before applying Machine Learning or Deep Learning,
text must be converted into numerical vectors.
Why Do We Need Text Vectorization?
Machine Learning algorithms perform mathematical calculations.
They cannot directly process words, sentences, or paragraphs.
I Love Natural Language Processing
- Understands Meaning
- Understands Context
- Understands Emotion
- Understands Relationships
[0.25, 0.18, 0.79]
- Understands Numbers
- Performs Calculations
- Needs Numerical Input
- Cannot Read Text Directly
Human Language → Vectorization → Numerical Vectors → Machine Learning
What is Vocabulary?
Vocabulary is the collection of all unique words present in a dataset.
Sentence 1:
I Love NLP
Sentence 2:
NLP is Amazing
Sentence 3:
AI and NLP are Related
Step 1 : Collect All Words
I, Love, NLP, NLP, is, Amazing,
AI, and, NLP, are, Related
Step 2 : Remove Duplicates
[I, Love, NLP, is, Amazing, AI, and, are, Related]
This final collection is called the Vocabulary.
What is Vocabulary Size?
Vocabulary Size is the total number of unique words in a dataset.
Vocabulary Size = Total Unique Words
Vocabulary:
[I, Love, NLP, is, Amazing, AI, and, are, Related]
Vocabulary Size = 9
Real World Vocabulary Example
Large Vocabulary Size increases memory consumption and computational cost.
How Does Text Vectorization Work?
Vectorization is the process of converting words into numerical values.
The machine cannot directly understand:
I Love NLP
Therefore NLP systems perform a series of steps to convert text into numbers.
Step 1 : Collect Text
The first step is collecting all text documents from the dataset.
Document 1:
I Love NLP
Document 2:
NLP is Amazing
Document 3:
AI Loves NLP
Step 2 : Create Vocabulary
All unique words are collected.
Duplicate words are removed.
Vocabulary
[I, Love, NLP, is, Amazing, AI, Loves]
Each word receives a unique position.
| Word |
Index |
| I |
0 |
| Love |
1 |
| NLP |
2 |
| is |
3 |
| Amazing |
4 |
| AI |
5 |
| Loves |
6 |
Step 3 : Convert Words into Numerical Representation
Once every word receives an index,
the NLP algorithm can create vectors.
Step 4 : Generate Feature Matrix
The final output of vectorization is called a Feature Matrix.
Each row represents a document.
Each column represents a vocabulary word.
Vocabulary
[I, Love, NLP, is, Amazing]
| Document |
I |
Love |
NLP |
is |
Amazing |
| Doc1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Doc2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
Why is Feature Matrix Important?
Machine Learning algorithms cannot learn directly from text.
They learn from numerical features.
Text
→
Vectorization
→
Feature Matrix
→
Machine Learning Model
→
Prediction
Vectorization Hierarchy
Traditional Vectorization focuses on frequency.
Modern Vectorization focuses on meaning and context.
Text Vectorization
│
├── Traditional Methods
│ ├── One Hot Encoding
│ ├── Bag of Words
│ ├── Count Vectorizer
│ ├── N-Grams
│ └── TF-IDF
│
└── Semantic Methods
├── Word2Vec
├── GloVe
├── FastText
└── Embeddings
Next Step
Now that we understand:
- Vocabulary
- Vocabulary Size
- Feature Matrix
- Vectorization Workflow
Let's start with the simplest vectorization technique:
One Hot Encoding
PART 1D
One Hot Encoding
The Simplest Text Vectorization Technique
What is One Hot Encoding?
One Hot Encoding is a vectorization technique where each word is represented by a binary vector.
Only one position contains 1.
All other positions contain 0.
Every word gets its own unique position.
Why One Hot Encoding?
Machines cannot understand words.
Therefore we assign a unique vector to every word.
Step 1 : Create Vocabulary
Sentence:
I Love NLP
Vocabulary
[I, Love, NLP]
Step 2 : Assign Positions
| Word |
Position |
| I |
0 |
| Love |
1 |
| NLP |
2 |
Step 3 : Generate Binary Vectors
| Word |
Vector |
| I |
[1,0,0] |
| Love |
[0,1,0] |
| NLP |
[0,0,1] |
Large Example
Vocabulary
[I, Love, NLP, AI, Machine, Learning]
| Word |
Vector |
| I |
[1,0,0,0,0,0] |
| Love |
[0,1,0,0,0,0] |
| NLP |
[0,0,1,0,0,0] |
| AI |
[0,0,0,1,0,0] |
Advantages
- Simple to Understand
- Easy to Implement
- Works Well for Small Vocabulary
- Good for Learning Fundamentals
Limitations
- Huge Memory Usage
- Sparse Matrix Problem
- No Semantic Meaning
- Cannot Understand Context
- Cannot Understand Similar Words
One Hot Encoding treats
King and Queen
as completely unrelated words.
Sparse Matrix Problem
Imagine a vocabulary of 10000 words.
[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0...]
Most values are zero.
This wastes memory.
Quick Quiz
- What is One Hot Encoding?
- Why do we use it?
- What is a binary vector?
- What is a sparse matrix?
- What are its limitations?
Interview Questions
- Explain One Hot Encoding.
- How does One Hot Encoding work?
- What is the Sparse Matrix Problem?
- Why is One Hot Encoding inefficient?
- Difference between One Hot Encoding and Bag of Words?
PART 1E
Bag of Words (BoW)
Counting Words Instead of Just Identifying Them
What is Bag of Words?
Bag of Words (BoW) is one of the most popular text vectorization techniques.
Instead of representing a word as a unique binary vector like One Hot Encoding,
BoW counts how many times each word appears in a document.
BoW focuses on frequency of words.
It ignores grammar and word order.
Why Do We Need Bag of Words?
One Hot Encoding only tells whether a word exists.
It does not tell how important that word is.
One Hot Encoding
NLP
↓
[0,0,1]
Bag of Words
NLP NLP NLP AI
↓
[3,1]
BoW captures frequency information.
Step 1 : Create Vocabulary
Document:
I Love NLP NLP
Vocabulary
[I, Love, NLP]
Step 2 : Count Word Occurrences
| Word |
Frequency |
| I |
1 |
| Love |
1 |
| NLP |
2 |
Step 3 : Create Vector
The count of each vocabulary word becomes the vector.
Vocabulary
[I, Love, NLP]
Vector
[1,1,2]
BoW Visualization
I Love NLP NLP
→
Vocabulary
→
Count Words
→
[1,1,2]
BoW for Multiple Documents
Document 1:
I Love NLP
Document 2:
NLP is Amazing
Document 3:
AI Loves NLP
Vocabulary
[I, Love, NLP, is, Amazing, AI, Loves]
Document-Term Matrix
Each row represents a document.
Each column represents a vocabulary word.
| Document |
I |
Love |
NLP |
is |
Amazing |
AI |
Loves |
| Doc1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Doc2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Doc3 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
Real World Example
Movie Review:
This movie is amazing.
Amazing acting.
Amazing story.
| Word |
Count |
| Amazing |
3 |
| Movie |
1 |
| Story |
1 |
| Acting |
1 |
The word "Amazing" appears more frequently,
indicating strong positive sentiment.
Major Limitation of BoW
Bag of Words ignores word order.
Both Generate
[1,1,1]
BoW cannot understand sequence or context.
Advantages of Bag of Words
- Simple to understand
- Easy to implement
- Works well with traditional ML algorithms
- Captures word frequency
- Fast processing
Disadvantages of Bag of Words
- Ignores word order
- Cannot understand meaning
- Cannot understand synonyms
- Sparse matrix problem
- Large vocabulary increases memory usage
One Hot Encoding vs Bag of Words
| Feature |
One Hot Encoding |
Bag of Words |
| Stores Frequency |
❌ |
✔ |
| Simple |
✔ |
✔ |
| Captures Importance |
❌ |
Partially |
| Word Order |
❌ |
❌ |
| Context |
❌ |
❌ |
Python Example
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer
documents = [
"I love NLP",
"NLP is amazing",
"AI loves NLP"
]
vectorizer = CountVectorizer()
X = vectorizer.fit_transform(documents)
print(vectorizer.get_feature_names_out())
print(X.toarray())
Quick Quiz
- What is Bag of Words?
- Why is BoW better than One Hot Encoding?
- What is a Document-Term Matrix?
- How does BoW represent text?
- What is the major limitation of BoW?
Interview Questions
- Explain Bag of Words with an example.
- How is BoW different from One Hot Encoding?
- What is a Document-Term Matrix?
- Why does BoW ignore context?
- What are the limitations of Bag of Words?
- How does CountVectorizer implement BoW?
- What is the Sparse Matrix problem?
- Can BoW understand semantics?
PART 1F
Count Vectorizer
Automating Bag of Words using Scikit-Learn
What is Count Vectorizer?
Count Vectorizer is a feature extraction technique provided by Scikit-Learn.
It automatically converts text documents into a numerical matrix by counting the frequency of words.
Count Vectorizer is essentially an automated implementation of the Bag of Words (BoW) model.
Why Do We Need Count Vectorizer?
Creating a Bag of Words manually becomes difficult when dealing with thousands of documents and vocabulary terms.
Count Vectorizer automatically:
- Creates Vocabulary
- Assigns Index Values
- Counts Word Frequencies
- Generates Feature Matrix
- Prepares Data for Machine Learning
Count Vectorizer Workflow
Raw Text
→
Vocabulary Creation
→
Word Counting
→
Feature Matrix
→
Machine Learning
Example Dataset
Document 1:
I Love NLP
Document 2:
NLP is Amazing
Document 3:
AI Loves NLP
Step 1 : Create Vocabulary
Count Vectorizer scans all documents and collects unique words.
Vocabulary
[I, Love, NLP, is, Amazing, AI, Loves]
| Word |
Index |
| I |
0 |
| Love |
1 |
| NLP |
2 |
| is |
3 |
| Amazing |
4 |
| AI |
5 |
| Loves |
6 |
Step 2 : Create Document-Term Matrix
Count Vectorizer counts occurrences of each word in every document.
| Document |
I |
Love |
NLP |
is |
Amazing |
AI |
Loves |
| Doc1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Doc2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| Doc3 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
Understanding the Feature Matrix
Each row represents a document.
Each column represents a vocabulary word.
The values indicate the frequency of occurrence.
Machine Learning algorithms learn patterns from this matrix.
How Count Vectorizer Works Internally
Collect Documents
→
Tokenize
→
Build Vocabulary
→
Count Words
→
Create Matrix
Important Parameters
| Parameter |
Purpose |
| max_features |
Limits vocabulary size |
| stop_words |
Removes common words |
| ngram_range |
Creates n-grams |
| lowercase |
Converts text to lowercase |
| binary |
Stores 0/1 instead of counts |
Python Example
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer
documents = [
"I love NLP",
"NLP is amazing",
"AI loves NLP"
]
vectorizer = CountVectorizer()
X = vectorizer.fit_transform(documents)
print(vectorizer.get_feature_names_out())
print(X.toarray())
Expected Output
Vocabulary
['ai',
'amazing',
'is',
'love',
'loves',
'nlp']
Feature Matrix
[[0 0 0 1 0 1]
[0 1 1 0 0 1]
[1 0 0 0 1 1]]
Advantages of Count Vectorizer
- Simple to use
- Automatically builds vocabulary
- Works well for small and medium datasets
- Fast implementation
- Useful for text classification tasks
Limitations of Count Vectorizer
- Ignores word meaning
- Cannot understand context
- Sparse matrix problem
- Large memory consumption
- Treats similar words as unrelated
Count Vectorizer knows frequency but does not know semantics.
"King" and "Queen" are treated as completely different words.
Bag of Words vs Count Vectorizer
| Feature |
Bag of Words |
Count Vectorizer |
| Concept |
Manual Method |
Automated Implementation |
| Vocabulary Creation |
Manual |
Automatic |
| Word Counting |
Manual |
Automatic |
| Feature Matrix |
Manual |
Automatic |
| Scalability |
Low |
High |
Real World Applications
- Email Spam Detection
- News Classification
- Sentiment Analysis
- Document Categorization
- Review Classification
Quick Quiz
- What is Count Vectorizer?
- How is it related to Bag of Words?
- What is a Feature Matrix?
- Why do we need Count Vectorizer?
- What are its limitations?
Interview Questions
- Explain Count Vectorizer.
- How does Count Vectorizer work internally?
- Difference between BoW and Count Vectorizer?
- What is a Document-Term Matrix?
- What are important Count Vectorizer parameters?
- What is the sparse matrix problem?
- Why is Count Vectorizer widely used?
- What are the limitations of Count Vectorizer?
PART 1G
N-Grams
Preserving Word Order and Context in Text Vectorization
What are N-Grams?
N-Grams are contiguous sequences of N words extracted from a sentence.
Unlike Bag of Words, which treats words independently,
N-Grams preserve word order and capture local context.
N = Number of Consecutive Words
N-Gram = Sequence of N Consecutive Words
Why Do We Need N-Grams?
Bag of Words ignores word order.
Sometimes word order completely changes the meaning.
Bag of Words generates the same vector for both sentences.
Meaning is lost.
N-Grams preserve word sequence and context.
Types of N-Grams
Unigram
→
Bigram
→
Trigram
→
Four-Gram
1. Unigram (N = 1)
Each individual word is treated as a token.
Sentence:
I Love NLP
Generated Unigrams
I
Love
NLP
Unigrams are identical to Bag of Words tokens.
2. Bigram (N = 2)
Two consecutive words are grouped together.
Sentence:
I Love NLP
Generated Bigrams
I Love
Love NLP
3. Trigram (N = 3)
Three consecutive words are grouped together.
Sentence:
I Love NLP
Generated Trigram
I Love NLP
Large Example
Sentence:
Natural Language Processing is Amazing
Unigrams
Natural
Language
Processing
is
Amazing
Bigrams
Natural Language
Language Processing
Processing is
is Amazing
Trigrams
Natural Language Processing
Language Processing is
Processing is Amazing
N-Gram Generation Visualization
Sentence
→
Tokenization
→
Word Sequences
→
N-Grams
Why N-Grams are Important in Sentiment Analysis?
Consider the sentence:
This movie is not good
Bag of Words View
not
good
The model may incorrectly interpret "good" as positive.
Bigram View
not good
The phrase meaning is preserved.
N-Grams help capture sentiment more accurately.
Bigram Feature Matrix
Document 1
I Love NLP
Document 2
Love NLP Today
| Document |
I Love |
Love NLP |
NLP Today |
| Doc1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
| Doc2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
Creating N-Grams using Count Vectorizer
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer
cv = CountVectorizer(
ngram_range=(2,2)
)
(2,2) → Only Bigrams
cv = CountVectorizer(
ngram_range=(1,2)
)
(1,2) → Unigrams + Bigrams
Understanding ngram_range
| ngram_range |
Meaning |
| (1,1) |
Only Unigrams |
| (2,2) |
Only Bigrams |
| (3,3) |
Only Trigrams |
| (1,2) |
Unigrams + Bigrams |
| (1,3) |
Unigrams + Bigrams + Trigrams |
Advantages of N-Grams
- Preserves Word Order
- Captures Local Context
- Improves Sentiment Analysis
- Better than Pure Bag of Words
- Works Well with Text Classification
Disadvantages of N-Grams
- Vocabulary grows rapidly
- Consumes more memory
- Sparse matrix problem
- Still cannot understand semantics
- Computationally expensive for large datasets
Increasing N increases feature space dramatically.
Bag of Words vs N-Grams
| Feature |
Bag of Words |
N-Grams |
| Word Frequency |
✔ |
✔ |
| Word Order |
❌ |
✔ |
| Context |
❌ |
Partial |
| Memory Usage |
Low |
Higher |
| Sentiment Analysis |
Average |
Better |
Applications of N-Grams
- Sentiment Analysis
- Machine Translation
- Spell Checking
- Text Prediction
- Language Modeling
- Speech Recognition
- Search Engines
Quick Quiz
- What is an N-Gram?
- What is a Bigram?
- What is a Trigram?
- Why are N-Grams useful?
- What problem of Bag of Words do N-Grams solve?
- What does ngram_range=(1,2) mean?
- Why are N-Grams useful in sentiment analysis?
Interview Questions
- What are N-Grams?
- Explain Unigram, Bigram and Trigram.
- How do N-Grams preserve context?
- What is the limitation of Bag of Words?
- How does CountVectorizer generate N-Grams?
- What is ngram_range?
- Why do N-Grams increase vocabulary size?
- What are the applications of N-Grams?
- Can N-Grams understand semantic meaning?
- Why are N-Grams useful in sentiment analysis?
PART 1H
TF-IDF (Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency)
Finding Important Words Instead of Just Counting Words
What is TF-IDF?
TF-IDF is one of the most important feature extraction techniques in Natural Language Processing.
While Bag of Words and Count Vectorizer only count words, TF-IDF identifies which words are important within a document.
Not all frequently occurring words are important.
TF-IDF assigns importance scores to words.
Why Do We Need TF-IDF?
Suppose we have thousands of documents.
Words like:
is
the
are
was
have
had
appear in almost every document.
These words do not help distinguish documents.
TF-IDF reduces the weight of common words and increases the weight of important words.
Real Life Example
Document 1:
NLP is Amazing
Document 2:
AI is Powerful
Document 3:
NLP is Useful
The word "is" appears in all documents.
The word "Amazing" appears in only one document.
"Amazing" should receive a higher importance score than "is".
Term Frequency (TF)
Term Frequency measures how frequently a word appears in a document.
TF = Number of Times Term Appears
÷
Total Number of Terms
Example
Document:
NLP NLP AI
Total Words = 3
Frequency of NLP = 2
TF(NLP)
= 2 / 3
= 0.67
Document Frequency (DF)
Document Frequency represents the number of documents containing a particular word.
Document 1:
NLP is Amazing
Document 2:
AI is Powerful
Document 3:
NLP is Useful
| Word |
DF |
| NLP |
2 |
| Amazing |
1 |
| is |
3 |
Inverse Document Frequency (IDF)
IDF measures how rare a word is across all documents.
IDF = log(
Total Documents
÷
Documents Containing Term
)
Example
Total Documents = 3
DF(Amazing) = 1
IDF(Amazing)
= log(3 / 1)
= 1.09
Final TF-IDF Formula
TF-IDF = TF × IDF
A word receives a high score when:
- It appears frequently in a document.
- It appears rarely across all documents.
Complete Worked Example
Document:
NLP NLP AI
Step 1 : Calculate TF
TF(NLP)
= 2 / 3
= 0.67
Step 2 : Calculate IDF
Total Documents = 3
DF(NLP) = 1
IDF(NLP)
= log(3 / 1)
= 1.09
Step 3 : Calculate TF-IDF
TF-IDF
= 0.67 × 1.09
= 0.73
TF-IDF Workflow
Documents
→
Calculate TF
→
Calculate DF
→
Calculate IDF
→
TF × IDF
→
Feature Matrix
TF-IDF Matrix
| Document |
NLP |
AI |
Amazing |
Powerful |
| Doc1 |
0.73 |
0 |
1.09 |
0 |
| Doc2 |
0 |
1.09 |
0 |
1.09 |
Python Example
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
documents = [
"I love NLP",
"NLP is amazing",
"AI loves NLP"
]
vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer()
X = vectorizer.fit_transform(documents)
print(vectorizer.get_feature_names_out())
print(X.toarray())
Advantages of TF-IDF
- Identifies important words.
- Reduces common word influence.
- Improves text classification.
- Works well with Machine Learning.
- Simple and efficient.
Limitations of TF-IDF
- Cannot understand word meaning.
- Cannot understand context.
- Cannot understand synonyms.
- Ignores sentence structure.
- Still produces sparse matrices.
TF-IDF knows importance but does not know meaning.
King and Queen remain unrelated words.
Comparison of Traditional Vectorization Techniques
| Technique |
Frequency |
Importance |
Context |
| One Hot Encoding |
❌ |
❌ |
❌ |
| Bag of Words |
✔ |
❌ |
❌ |
| Count Vectorizer |
✔ |
❌ |
❌ |
| N-Grams |
✔ |
❌ |
Partial |
| TF-IDF |
✔ |
✔ |
❌ |
Traditional NLP Vectorization Journey
One Hot Encoding
→
Bag of Words
→
Count Vectorizer
→
N-Grams
→
TF-IDF
→
Word Embeddings
Quick Quiz
- What does TF-IDF stand for?
- What is Term Frequency?
- What is Document Frequency?
- What is Inverse Document Frequency?
- Why is TF-IDF better than Bag of Words?
- Write the TF-IDF formula.
- Why do common words get lower scores?
- What are the limitations of TF-IDF?
Interview Questions
- Explain TF-IDF with an example.
- What is the difference between TF and IDF?
- Why is TF-IDF important in NLP?
- How does TF-IDF improve text classification?
- What are the limitations of TF-IDF?
- Can TF-IDF understand semantics?
- What is the difference between CountVectorizer and TfidfVectorizer?
- Why does TF-IDF reduce common word importance?
- What is sparse matrix representation?
- When should TF-IDF be preferred?
PART 2A
Word Embeddings
Moving from Word Counting to Understanding Meaning
Why Do We Need Word Embeddings?
Traditional Vectorization techniques such as:
- One Hot Encoding
- Bag of Words
- Count Vectorizer
- N-Grams
- TF-IDF
focus mainly on counting words.
They do not understand:
- Meaning
- Context
- Relationships
- Synonyms
- Semantic Similarity
Traditional NLP knows frequency.
Modern NLP understands meaning.
Problem with Traditional Vectorization
Words
King
Queen
Man
Woman
TF-IDF View
King → 0.54
Queen → 0.63
Man → 0.21
Woman → 0.72
The model knows these are different words.
But it does not know their relationships.
What is Semantic Understanding?
Semantic Understanding means understanding the meaning of words and their relationships.
King ≈ Queen
Doctor ≈ Physician
Car ≈ Automobile
Dog ≈ Puppy
Humans naturally understand these relationships.
Word Embeddings help machines learn them.
What is a Word Embedding?
A Word Embedding is a dense numerical vector that represents the meaning of a word.
King
→
[0.21, 0.85, 0.44, 0.91]
Queen
→
[0.24, 0.83, 0.48, 0.89]
Similar words receive similar vectors.
Sparse Vectors vs Dense Vectors
| Feature |
Traditional NLP |
Word Embeddings |
| Vector Type |
Sparse |
Dense |
| Memory Usage |
High |
Low |
| Understands Meaning |
No |
Yes |
| Captures Context |
No |
Yes |
| Semantic Similarity |
No |
Yes |
Word Embedding Visualization
King ●
Queen ●
Prince ●
Princess ●
Doctor ●
Hospital ●
Words with similar meanings appear close together in vector space.
Embedding Space = Mathematical Representation of Meaning
How Word Embeddings Work
Text Corpus
→
Learn Context
→
Generate Vectors
→
Capture Meaning
The model observes which words frequently appear together.
Context Learning Example
The King rules the Kingdom
The Queen rules the Kingdom
The Prince lives in the Palace
The model notices:
- King and Queen appear in similar contexts
- Kingdom appears near both words
- Prince appears in related contexts
Therefore the vectors become similar.
Famous Word Embedding Analogy
King
− Man
+ Woman
=
Queen
Word Embeddings can learn relationships mathematically.
Introduction to Word2Vec
Word2Vec is one of the most popular embedding algorithms.
It learns word meanings based on surrounding context.
The next chapter focuses entirely on Word2Vec.
Applications of Word Embeddings
- ChatGPT
- Machine Translation
- Question Answering
- Search Engines
- Recommendation Systems
- Sentiment Analysis
- Speech Recognition
- Text Summarization
Traditional NLP vs Modern NLP
| Feature |
Traditional NLP |
Word Embeddings |
| Counts Words |
✔ |
✔ |
| Meaning |
❌ |
✔ |
| Context |
❌ |
✔ |
| Relationships |
❌ |
✔ |
| Semantic Search |
❌ |
✔ |
Quick Quiz
- What is a Word Embedding?
- Why are embeddings better than TF-IDF?
- What is semantic understanding?
- What is a dense vector?
- Why are King and Queen close in embedding space?
- Name three embedding techniques.
- What is context learning?
Interview Questions
- What are Word Embeddings?
- Why do we need embeddings?
- Difference between TF-IDF and Word Embeddings?
- What are dense vectors?
- What is semantic similarity?
- Explain the King-Man+Woman=Queen analogy.
- What are the types of embeddings?
- How do embeddings capture meaning?
- Why are embeddings important for LLMs?
- What is embedding space?
PART 2B
Word2Vec
Learning Word Meaning from Context
What is Word2Vec?
Word2Vec is a Deep Learning based Word Embedding algorithm introduced by Google in 2013.
It converts words into dense vectors while preserving semantic meaning.
Words appearing in similar contexts receive similar vector representations.
Why Was Word2Vec Introduced?
Traditional techniques such as:
- One Hot Encoding
- Bag of Words
- Count Vectorizer
- TF-IDF
cannot understand relationships between words.
King ≠ Queen
Car ≠ Automobile
Doctor ≠ Physician
Traditional NLP sees different words.
Word2Vec understands related words.
Main Idea Behind Word2Vec
Words that appear in similar contexts usually have similar meanings.
The King rules the kingdom
The Queen rules the kingdom
Since King and Queen appear in similar surroundings, Word2Vec learns that they are related.
How Word2Vec Works
Large Text Corpus
→
Context Learning
→
Neural Network
→
Dense Vectors
Understanding Context
Word2Vec learns from neighboring words.
I Love Natural Language Processing
| Target Word |
Context Words |
| Natural |
Love, Language |
| Language |
Natural, Processing |
Word2Vec Architectures
Word2Vec
→
CBOW
→
Skip-Gram
Word2Vec has two architectures:
1. CBOW (Continuous Bag of Words)
2. Skip-Gram
CBOW (Continuous Bag of Words)
CBOW predicts the target word using surrounding context words.
I Love _____ Processing
Using:
I, Love, Processing
Predict:
Natural
Context Words
→
Predict Target Word
Skip-Gram
Skip-Gram does the opposite.
It predicts surrounding words using the target word.
Target Word:
Natural
Predict:
Love
Language
Target Word
→
Predict Context Words
CBOW vs Skip-Gram
| Feature |
CBOW |
Skip-Gram |
| Input |
Context Words |
Target Word |
| Output |
Target Word |
Context Words |
| Training Speed |
Faster |
Slower |
| Small Datasets |
Better |
Average |
| Rare Words |
Average |
Better |
Window Size
Window Size determines how many neighboring words are considered as context.
I Love Natural Language Processing
Window Size = 2
| Target |
Context |
| Natural |
Love, Language |
Generated Word Vectors
King
[0.23, 0.87, 0.45, 0.91]
Queen
[0.25, 0.84, 0.47, 0.89]
Notice how both vectors are very similar.
Semantic Relationships Learned by Word2Vec
King
− Man
+ Woman
=
Queen
Paris
− France
+ Italy
=
Rome
Word2Vec Training Process
Corpus
→
Tokenization
→
Context Extraction
→
Neural Network
→
Embeddings
Python Example using Gensim
from gensim.models import Word2Vec
sentences = [
["i","love","nlp"],
["nlp","is","amazing"],
["ai","uses","nlp"]
]
model = Word2Vec(
sentences,
vector_size=100,
window=5,
min_count=1
)
print(model.wv["nlp"])
Advantages of Word2Vec
- Captures semantic meaning
- Dense vectors
- Memory efficient
- Understands word relationships
- Works well with NLP applications
Limitations of Word2Vec
- Same word always gets same vector
- Cannot handle multiple meanings effectively
- Needs large corpus
- Context understanding is limited
The word "Bank" (river bank vs financial bank) gets the same vector.
Applications of Word2Vec
- Search Engines
- Recommendation Systems
- Chatbots
- Machine Translation
- Sentiment Analysis
- Question Answering Systems
Quick Quiz
- What is Word2Vec?
- Why was Word2Vec introduced?
- What is CBOW?
- What is Skip-Gram?
- What is Window Size?
- Why are King and Queen close in vector space?
- What are the advantages of Word2Vec?
Interview Questions
- Explain Word2Vec.
- How does Word2Vec learn word meanings?
- Difference between CBOW and Skip-Gram?
- What is Window Size?
- Why are embeddings dense vectors?
- Explain the King − Man + Woman = Queen analogy.
- What are the limitations of Word2Vec?
- Why is Word2Vec better than TF-IDF?
- What is semantic similarity?
- How is Word2Vec trained?
PART 2C
CBOW (Continuous Bag of Words)
Predicting a Word Using Its Surrounding Context
What is CBOW?
CBOW (Continuous Bag of Words) is one of the two architectures of Word2Vec.
Its goal is simple:
Use surrounding words (context words)
to predict the missing target word.
CBOW learns word meanings by observing neighboring words.
Real Life Intuition
Humans can often guess a missing word using surrounding words.
I Love _____ Processing
Most people will predict:
Natural
CBOW trains a neural network to perform exactly this task.
Main Idea Behind CBOW
Context Words
→
Neural Network
→
Target Word
Input:
I Love Processing
Output:
Natural
Example Sentence
I Love Natural Language Processing
Assume:
Target Word = Natural
Context Words = Love, Language
Understanding Window Size
Window Size determines how many neighboring words are used as context.
I Love Natural Language Processing
Window Size = 1
Love
Language
Window Size = 2
I
Love
Language
Processing
Larger Window Size captures more context.
CBOW Architecture
Input Layer
→
Hidden Layer
→
Output Layer
Input Layer
The Input Layer receives context words.
Sentence:
I Love Natural Language Processing
Target:
Natural
Input:
Love
Language
Context words are converted into vectors.
Hidden Layer
The Hidden Layer learns relationships between words.
This layer gradually learns:
- Semantic Meaning
- Word Relationships
- Context Information
- Word Similarities
This layer creates the word embeddings.
Output Layer
The Output Layer predicts the most probable target word.
Input:
Love, Language
Output:
Natural
Complete CBOW Workflow
Sentence
→
Extract Context
→
Feed Neural Network
→
Predict Word
→
Learn Embeddings
Training Example
Sentence:
The Cat Drinks Milk
| Context Words |
Target Word |
| The, Drinks |
Cat |
| Cat, Milk |
Drinks |
| Drinks |
Milk |
Mathematical View
CBOW attempts to maximize:
P(Target Word | Context Words)
Meaning:
Probability of Target Word
given the surrounding Context Words.
CBOW Visualization
Love
Language
↓
Neural Network
↓
Natural
The model learns that these context words frequently surround "Natural".
Why CBOW Works
Words appearing in similar contexts often have similar meanings.
The King rules the Kingdom
The Queen rules the Kingdom
Since King and Queen appear in similar surroundings,
their embeddings become similar.
Advantages of CBOW
- Fast Training
- Efficient on Large Datasets
- Good General Embeddings
- Less Computational Cost
- Works Well for Frequent Words
Limitations of CBOW
- Poor for Rare Words
- Uses Fixed Context Window
- Cannot Handle Multiple Meanings Well
- Context Understanding is Limited
The word "Bank" still receives one vector,
even if it means river bank or financial bank.
CBOW vs Skip-Gram
| Feature |
CBOW |
Skip-Gram |
| Input |
Context Words |
Target Word |
| Output |
Target Word |
Context Words |
| Training Speed |
Fast |
Slow |
| Frequent Words |
Better |
Good |
| Rare Words |
Weak |
Better |
Python Example using Gensim
from gensim.models import Word2Vec
sentences = [
["i","love","nlp"],
["nlp","is","amazing"],
["ai","uses","nlp"]
]
model = Word2Vec(
sentences,
vector_size=100,
window=2,
min_count=1,
sg=0
)
print(model.wv["nlp"])
Important Note
sg = 0 → CBOW
sg = 1 → Skip-Gram
Applications of CBOW
- Search Engines
- Recommendation Systems
- Document Classification
- Chatbots
- Machine Translation
- Question Answering Systems
Quick Quiz
- What is CBOW?
- What does CBOW predict?
- What is Window Size?
- What is the role of the Hidden Layer?
- What does sg=0 mean?
- Why is CBOW faster than Skip-Gram?
- What are the limitations of CBOW?
Interview Questions
- Explain CBOW architecture.
- How does CBOW work?
- What is the difference between CBOW and Skip-Gram?
- What is Window Size?
- Why is CBOW faster?
- How are embeddings learned in CBOW?
- What does sg=0 represent?
- What are the advantages of CBOW?
- What are the limitations of CBOW?
- When should CBOW be preferred?
PART 2D
Skip-Gram Architecture
Predicting Context Words Using the Target Word
What is Skip-Gram?
Skip-Gram is one of the two architectures of Word2Vec.
Unlike CBOW, which predicts a target word from context words,
Skip-Gram predicts surrounding context words using the target word.
Target Word → Predict Context Words
Real Life Intuition
Suppose we know the word:
Natural
We can often predict nearby words such as:
Love
Language
Processing
Skip-Gram trains a neural network to perform this prediction.
Main Idea Behind Skip-Gram
Target Word
→
Neural Network
→
Context Words
Input:
Natural
Output:
Love, Language
Example Sentence
I Love Natural Language Processing
Assume:
Target Word = Natural
Context Words = Love, Language
Understanding Window Size
Window Size determines how many neighboring words are predicted.
I Love Natural Language Processing
Window Size = 1
Love
Language
Window Size = 2
I
Love
Language
Processing
Larger windows capture broader context.
Skip-Gram Architecture
Input Layer
→
Hidden Layer
→
Output Layer
Input Layer
The Input Layer receives the target word.
Target Word:
Natural
The target word is converted into a numerical vector.
Hidden Layer
The hidden layer learns semantic relationships among words.
- Word Meaning
- Word Similarity
- Context Information
- Relationships
This layer generates the final word embeddings.
Output Layer
The Output Layer predicts nearby context words.
Input:
Natural
Output:
Love
Language
Training Example
Sentence:
The Cat Drinks Milk
| Input (Target) |
Output (Context) |
| Cat |
The |
| Cat |
Drinks |
| Drinks |
Cat |
| Drinks |
Milk |
Complete Skip-Gram Workflow
Sentence
→
Target Word
→
Predict Context
→
Learn Embeddings
Mathematical View
Skip-Gram tries to maximize:
P(Context Words | Target Word)
Meaning:
Probability of observing surrounding words
given a target word.
How Skip-Gram Learns Meaning
The King rules the Kingdom
The Queen rules the Kingdom
The model notices:
- King appears near rules and kingdom
- Queen appears near rules and kingdom
Therefore King and Queen receive similar vectors.
Why Skip-Gram is Better for Rare Words?
Each target word generates multiple training examples.
Target:
Natural
Context:
Love
Language
Processing
This helps the model learn rare words more effectively.
Skip-Gram performs better than CBOW on rare vocabulary.
CBOW vs Skip-Gram
| Feature |
CBOW |
Skip-Gram |
| Input |
Context Words |
Target Word |
| Output |
Target Word |
Context Words |
| Training Speed |
Fast |
Slower |
| Rare Words |
Average |
Excellent |
| Large Datasets |
Good |
Excellent |
| Accuracy |
Good |
Higher |
CBOW vs Skip-Gram Visualization
CBOW
Love + Language
↓
Natural
Skip-Gram
Natural
↓
Love + Language
Python Example using Gensim
from gensim.models import Word2Vec
sentences = [
["i","love","nlp"],
["nlp","is","amazing"],
["ai","uses","nlp"]
]
model = Word2Vec(
sentences,
vector_size=100,
window=2,
min_count=1,
sg=1
)
print(model.wv["nlp"])
Important Note
sg = 0 → CBOW
sg = 1 → Skip-Gram
Advantages of Skip-Gram
- Learns better embeddings
- Handles rare words effectively
- Captures semantic relationships
- Produces high-quality vectors
- Suitable for large corpora
Limitations of Skip-Gram
- Slower training
- Requires more computation
- Needs large datasets
- Cannot fully understand sentence meaning
Skip-Gram still produces one vector per word.
Different meanings of the same word are not separated.
Applications of Skip-Gram
- Search Engines
- Recommendation Systems
- Machine Translation
- Chatbots
- Text Classification
- Question Answering Systems
- Semantic Search
Quick Quiz
- What is Skip-Gram?
- How is Skip-Gram different from CBOW?
- What does Skip-Gram predict?
- What is Window Size?
- Why is Skip-Gram better for rare words?
- What does sg=1 mean?
- What are the advantages of Skip-Gram?
Interview Questions
- Explain Skip-Gram architecture.
- How does Skip-Gram work?
- Difference between CBOW and Skip-Gram?
- Why is Skip-Gram better for rare words?
- What is Window Size?
- What does sg=1 represent?
- How are embeddings learned in Skip-Gram?
- What are the advantages of Skip-Gram?
- What are the limitations of Skip-Gram?
- When should Skip-Gram be preferred?
PART 2E
GloVe (Global Vectors for Word Representation)
Combining Global Statistics with Semantic Understanding
What is GloVe?
GloVe (Global Vectors for Word Representation) is a word embedding technique developed by Stanford University.
It creates meaningful word vectors by analyzing how frequently words appear together across an entire corpus.
Word2Vec learns from local context.
GloVe learns from both local context and global statistics.
Why Was GloVe Introduced?
Word2Vec is excellent at learning local context.
However, it does not fully utilize the overall statistics of the corpus.
King appears with:
royal
queen
palace
Queen appears with:
royal
king
palace
GloVe studies these global relationships across the entire dataset.
Main Idea Behind GloVe
Words that frequently occur together should have similar vector representations.
Word Co-occurrence Matrix
→
Matrix Factorization
→
Word Embeddings
What is a Co-occurrence Matrix?
A Co-occurrence Matrix stores how often words appear together.
Sentence:
I Love NLP
NLP Loves AI
| Word |
I |
Love |
NLP |
AI |
| I |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
| Love |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| NLP |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| AI |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
Local Context vs Global Context
| Feature |
Word2Vec |
GloVe |
| Local Context |
✔ |
✔ |
| Global Statistics |
❌ |
✔ |
| Corpus Wide Learning |
Limited |
Strong |
| Semantic Relationships |
Good |
Excellent |
Matrix Factorization
The Co-occurrence Matrix can become extremely large.
GloVe compresses this information into smaller dense vectors.
Huge Matrix
→
Factorization
→
Dense Embeddings
GloVe Mathematical Formula
wᵢᵀ wⱼ + bᵢ + bⱼ
≈
log(Xᵢⱼ)
Where:
- wᵢ = Word Vector
- wⱼ = Context Vector
- bᵢ = Word Bias
- bⱼ = Context Bias
- Xᵢⱼ = Co-occurrence Count
Simple Explanation of the Formula
The formula tries to ensure:
Words that appear together frequently
↓
Should have similar vectors
The model continuously adjusts vectors until the mathematical relationship matches real-world word co-occurrences.
Example: Learning Relationships
King → Royal, Palace, Queen
Queen → Royal, Palace, King
Doctor → Hospital, Patient
Nurse → Hospital, Patient
Because these words appear in similar contexts, their vectors become similar.
GloVe automatically learns semantic similarity.
Famous GloVe Analogy
King
− Man
+ Woman
=
Queen
Paris
− France
+ Italy
=
Rome
These relationships emerge naturally from word co-occurrence statistics.
GloVe Training Process
Large Corpus
→
Build Co-occurrence Matrix
→
Matrix Factorization
→
Generate Embeddings
Embedding Space Visualization
King ●
Queen ●
Prince ●
Princess ●
Doctor ●
Nurse ●
Hospital ●
Words with similar meanings cluster together.
Word2Vec vs GloVe
| Feature |
Word2Vec |
GloVe |
| Learning Method |
Prediction Based |
Count Based |
| Uses Context |
Local |
Global + Local |
| Co-occurrence Matrix |
❌ |
✔ |
| Semantic Quality |
High |
Very High |
| Training Speed |
Fast |
Moderate |
Using Pretrained GloVe Embeddings
import gensim.downloader as api
glove = api.load("glove-wiki-gigaword-100")
print(
glove.most_similar("king")
)
Advantages of GloVe
- Captures semantic meaning
- Uses global corpus statistics
- Produces high-quality embeddings
- Learns word relationships
- Efficient for large datasets
- Excellent for NLP applications
Limitations of GloVe
- Cannot handle unseen words
- Static embeddings
- One word = One vector
- Cannot handle multiple meanings effectively
- Requires large training corpora
Bank (financial)
Bank (river)
↓
Same vector
Applications of GloVe
- Chatbots
- Machine Translation
- Search Engines
- Recommendation Systems
- Question Answering Systems
- Text Classification
- Sentiment Analysis
- Information Retrieval
GloVe Summary
Corpus
→
Co-occurrence Matrix
→
Factorization
→
Dense Embeddings
→
Semantic Understanding
Quick Quiz
- What does GloVe stand for?
- What is a Co-occurrence Matrix?
- Why was GloVe introduced?
- How is GloVe different from Word2Vec?
- What is Matrix Factorization?
- Why are King and Queen close in vector space?
- What are the limitations of GloVe?
Interview Questions
- Explain GloVe Embeddings.
- How does GloVe work?
- What is a Co-occurrence Matrix?
- Difference between Word2Vec and GloVe?
- What is Matrix Factorization?
- Why does GloVe produce better semantic vectors?
- What are the advantages of GloVe?
- What are its limitations?
- Explain the King − Man + Woman = Queen analogy.
- When would you use GloVe instead of Word2Vec?
PART 2F
FastText
Solving the Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) Problem using Subword Information
What is FastText?
FastText is a Word Embedding algorithm developed by Facebook AI Research (FAIR).
It improves Word2Vec by learning not only complete words but also parts of words called subwords.
Word2Vec learns from words.
FastText learns from words + character patterns.
Why Was FastText Introduced?
Word2Vec and GloVe have a major limitation.
Known Word:
computer
Unknown Word:
computers
computerized
computerization
Traditional embeddings treat these as completely different words.
Unknown words cannot be represented properly.
This is called the OOV Problem.
What is OOV (Out Of Vocabulary)?
OOV words are words that were never seen during training.
Training Vocabulary
cat
dog
car
Testing Word
cats
Word2Vec:
❌ Cannot generate embedding
FastText:
✔ Can generate embedding
Main Idea Behind FastText
FastText breaks words into smaller character-level chunks called N-Grams.
Word
→
Character N-Grams
→
Embeddings
Character N-Grams
Consider the word:
Computer
FastText generates character N-Grams.
<co
com
omp
mpu
put
ute
ter
er>
< and > represent beginning and ending boundaries.
Word Construction Visualization
Computer
→
Subwords
→
Embeddings
→
Final Vector
Example: Unknown Word Handling
Suppose the model has seen:
play
playing
player
played
Now a new word appears:
playfulness
FastText can still understand it because it recognizes:
pla
lay
ayf
yfu
ful
ness
FastText Architecture
Input Word
→
Character N-Grams
→
Neural Network
→
Word Embedding
Training Process
- Collect Text Corpus
- Tokenize Text
- Generate Character N-Grams
- Train Neural Network
- Learn Subword Embeddings
- Combine Subwords into Final Word Vector
Word2Vec vs GloVe vs FastText
| Feature |
Word2Vec |
GloVe |
FastText |
| Word Embeddings |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| Context Learning |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| Character Information |
❌ |
❌ |
✔ |
| Handles OOV Words |
❌ |
❌ |
✔ |
| Morphological Understanding |
❌ |
❌ |
✔ |
Morphological Understanding
Morphology refers to the structure of words.
teach
teacher
teaching
teaches
FastText understands that all these words are related because they share similar character patterns.
FastText Embedding Example
computer
[0.45, 0.76, 0.23, 0.89]
computerized
[0.44, 0.75, 0.25, 0.87]
Notice that both vectors remain very similar.
Python Example
from gensim.models import FastText
sentences = [
["i","love","nlp"],
["nlp","is","amazing"],
["ai","uses","nlp"]
]
model = FastText(
sentences,
vector_size=100,
window=5,
min_count=1
)
print(model.wv["nlp"])
Real World Applications
- Chatbots
- Search Engines
- Spell Correction
- Machine Translation
- Text Classification
- Question Answering
- Recommendation Systems
- Multilingual NLP
Advantages of FastText
- Handles OOV Words
- Uses Character-Level Information
- Captures Word Structure
- Better for Rare Words
- Works Well on Small Datasets
- Excellent for Morphologically Rich Languages
Limitations of FastText
- Larger Model Size
- More Memory Usage
- Slower Training than Word2Vec
- Still Produces Static Embeddings
- Cannot Fully Understand Sentence Meaning
FastText improves word understanding,
but it still generates one embedding per word.
Evolution of Word Embeddings
Word2Vec
→
GloVe
→
FastText
→
Transformers
Quick Quiz
- What is FastText?
- Why was FastText introduced?
- What is OOV?
- What are Character N-Grams?
- How does FastText handle unknown words?
- Difference between Word2Vec and FastText?
- What is morphology?
- What are the advantages of FastText?
Interview Questions
- Explain FastText.
- What is the OOV problem?
- How does FastText solve OOV?
- What are Character N-Grams?
- Difference between Word2Vec, GloVe and FastText?
- What is morphological understanding?
- Why is FastText useful for rare words?
- What are the limitations of FastText?
- How does FastText generate embeddings?
- When should FastText be preferred?
PART 3A
Contextual Embeddings & Transformers
From Static Word Embeddings to Modern Large Language Models
The Next Evolution in NLP
We have already studied:
One Hot
→
BoW
→
TF-IDF
→
Word2Vec
→
GloVe
→
FastText
These methods improved NLP significantly.
However they still have a major limitation.
A word always receives the same vector,
regardless of the sentence.
Problem with Traditional Embeddings
Consider the word:
Bank
Sentence 1
I deposited money in the bank.
Sentence 2
Children are playing near the river bank.
Humans understand that "bank" has different meanings.
Word2Vec, GloVe and FastText generate the SAME vector.
Polysemy Problem
Polysemy means:
One Word
↓
Multiple Meanings
| Word |
Meaning 1 |
Meaning 2 |
| Bank |
Financial Institution |
River Side |
| Bat |
Animal |
Cricket Bat |
| Apple |
Fruit |
Technology Company |
Static vs Contextual Embeddings
| Feature |
Static Embeddings |
Contextual Embeddings |
| One Vector per Word |
✔ |
❌ |
| Context Awareness |
❌ |
✔ |
| Handles Polysemy |
❌ |
✔ |
| Sentence Understanding |
Limited |
Excellent |
| Used in LLMs |
❌ |
✔ |
What are Contextual Embeddings?
Contextual Embeddings generate different vectors for the same word depending on the sentence.
Bank (Money Context)
↓
[0.45, 0.21, 0.87]
Bank (River Context)
↓
[0.12, 0.94, 0.32]
Same word
Different meanings
Different vectors
Introduction to Transformers
Transformers are Deep Learning architectures introduced by Google in 2017.
They completely changed NLP.
Paper:
Attention Is All You Need
(2017)
Almost all modern NLP systems use Transformers.
Why Transformers Replaced RNNs and LSTMs?
| Problem |
RNN/LSTM |
Transformer |
| Sequential Processing |
Slow |
Fast |
| Long Context |
Difficult |
Excellent |
| Parallel Processing |
❌ |
✔ |
| Training Speed |
Slow |
Fast |
Attention Mechanism
Attention helps the model focus on important words while processing a sentence.
The cat sat on the mat.
When processing:
cat
the model gives more attention to:
sat
mat
Self-Attention
Self-Attention allows every word to look at every other word in the sentence.
Word 1
↔
Word 2
↔
Word 3
↔
Word 4
Every word understands its relationship with every other word.
Self-Attention Example
The animal didn't cross the street
because it was tired.
Question:
Who was tired?
it → animal
Self-Attention helps identify such relationships.
Transformer Architecture
Input Text
→
Embedding Layer
→
Self-Attention
→
Feed Forward
→
Output
Encoder and Decoder
Encoder
- Reads Input
- Understands Context
- Creates Representation
Decoder
- Generates Output
- Creates Sentences
- Predicts Next Words
Transformer Family
| Model |
Architecture |
Main Purpose |
| BERT |
Encoder |
Understanding Text |
| GPT |
Decoder |
Generating Text |
| T5 |
Encoder + Decoder |
Both Tasks |
BERT
BERT stands for:
Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers
BERT reads sentences in both directions.
Excellent for understanding language.
GPT
GPT stands for:
Generative Pre-trained Transformer
GPT predicts the next word repeatedly to generate text.
Artificial Intelligence is
↓
changing
↓
the
↓
world
Modern LLMs
Modern Large Language Models are built using Transformer architectures.
- GPT-4
- GPT-5
- Gemini
- Claude
- Llama
- Mistral
Transformers are the foundation of Generative AI.
Evolution of NLP
TF-IDF
→
Word2Vec
→
GloVe
→
FastText
→
Transformers
→
LLMs
Quick Quiz
- What are Contextual Embeddings?
- What is Polysemy?
- Why do static embeddings fail?
- What is a Transformer?
- What is Attention?
- What is Self-Attention?
- Difference between BERT and GPT?
- Why are Transformers important?
Interview Questions
- Explain Contextual Embeddings.
- Difference between static and contextual embeddings?
- What problem do Transformers solve?
- What is Self-Attention?
- Why are Transformers faster than RNNs?
- Explain Encoder and Decoder.
- Difference between BERT and GPT?
- What is Polysemy?
- How do LLMs use Transformers?
- Why did Transformers revolutionize NLP?