Non-Parametric Transformers | Paper explained

Опубликовано: 16 Март 2026
на канале: Aleksa Gordić - The AI Epiphany
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In this video I do a deep dive of the "Self-Attention Between Datapoints: Going Beyond Individual Input-Output Pairs in Deep Learning" paper.

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✅ Non-Parametric Transformers paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.02584
✅ Jay Alammar's BERT blog: http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated...
✅ My LinkedIn post (Judea Pearl):   / aleksagordic_pearl-causality-intelligence-...   (also check out my other posts I made related to this)

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⌚️ Timetable:
00:00 Key ideas of the paper
01:40 Abstract
02:55 Note on k-NN (non-parametric machine learning)
04:30 Data and NPT setup explained
06:15 NPT loss is inspired by BERT
08:20 A high-level architecture overview
11:30 NPT jointly learns imputation and prediction
12:50 Architecture deep dive (input embeddings, etc)
20:45 More details on the stochastic masking loss
23:30 Connections to Graph Neural Networks and CNNs
29:45 NPT achieves great results on tabular data benchmarks
34:25 NPT learns the underlying relational, causal mechanisms
39:40 NPT does rely on other datapoints
42:10 NPT attends to similar vectors
45:15 Conclusions

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