From RNNs to GPT: A Comprehensive Guide To Recent Breakthroughs in Natural Language Processing — 1

I have been more conceptual than historical. Also, I have eschewed mathematical rigor to preserve readability.

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(1) NLP BEFORE RNN

Before the advancement of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) in Natural Language Processing (NLP), several techniques were used for…