In the context of electrical engineering, "transformers" typically refer to electrical devices that are used for voltage regulation and power transfer in electrical circuits. These traditional transformers, consisting of a pair of coils wrapped around a magnetic core, are well-established and widely used in various applications.
However, in the context of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning, "transformers" refer to a specific type of deep learning model architecture that has been highly successful in tasks like language translation, text generation, and sentiment analysis. Examples of such transformer models include BERT, GPT-3, and T5, among others.
These two types of "transformers" serve different purposes and are not directly related to each other. The transformer model used in NLP cannot be directly applied to voltage regulation or electrical engineering tasks. Traditional electrical transformers are physical devices that rely on electromagnetic principles, while the transformer models in NLP are software-based machine learning models designed for natural language understanding and generation.
If you are interested in voltage regulation or power transfer in electrical systems, you would need to study traditional electrical engineering principles and transformers used in that context. Conversely, if you are interested in natural language processing and machine learning, you would study transformer-based models and their applications in NLP tasks.