What is BERT?
NLP
BERT — Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. A pre-trained language model by Google that understands context from both directions. Used for classification, NER, and embeddings.
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What is BERT?
A bidirectional transformer model by Google, pre-trained on masked language modeling. Excellent for understanding text (classification, search, NER).
BERT vs GPT?
BERT is bidirectional (understands context from both sides) — good for understanding. GPT is autoregressive (left-to-right) — good for generation.
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