Cyber Elephant Tech Team

Apr 28, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Understanding BERT: From Encoder-Decoder to Transformer and Attention

This article explains the BERT model by first reviewing the Encoder-Decoder framework, then detailing the attention mechanism—including self-attention and multi-head attention—before describing the full Transformer architecture and finally outlining BERT’s encoder-only design, training stages, and fine-tuning applications.