Language modeling notes from count-based N-gram models to pretrained Transformer encoders.

Notes

AreaNoteStatus
Language modelingN-Gram Language Modelsdraft
Pretrained modelBERTdraft

Learning Use

  • Use N-gram models as the baseline for sequence probability.
  • Treat BERT as the bridge from static embeddings to pretrained contextual encoders.
  • Prepare for LLM pretraining and alignment notes.