An encoder can support task-specific classification

An encoder can be paired with a task-specific output layer. In an original example, a support team could train a classifier to assign incoming messages to departments. The evaluation should measure incorrect routing, including unfamiliar requests.

Not every transformer is a chat model

Do not assume that every model called a transformer generates chat responses. Architecture, training objective, and task adaptation determine what the system is built to do.

THE TAKEAWAY

What to remember

Review unfamiliar-message behavior.

Sources & further reading

  1. BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding ↗
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