# Transformers in Practice

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## [About the Transformers in Practice category](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/about-the-transformers-in-practice-category/891986)

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**Last updated:** [May 4, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/about-the-transformers-in-practice-category/891986 "2026-05-04T13:54:34Z")

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## [topK value not having effect in visualizing multiple completions](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/topk-value-not-having-effect-in-visualizing-multiple-completions/895087)

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**Author:** [@Piyush\_Raut](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Piyush_Raut)\
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**Last updated:** [September 13, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/topk-value-not-having-effect-in-visualizing-multiple-completions/895087 "2026-09-13T16:51:11Z")

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In the Transformers in Practice course, I am at Visualization 1.3: How Sampling Shapes Output. I don’t see any difference in the multiple-completion outputs when I set the temperature to 2 and Top-K to 1 or 5. If Top-K…

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## [Question 10 in Module 2, Graded Quiz](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/question-10-in-module-2-graded-quiz/894927)

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**Author:** [@CharviVitthal](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/CharviVitthal)\
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**Last updated:** [September 3, 2026, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/question-10-in-module-2-graded-quiz/894927 "2026-09-03T13:19:05Z")

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The Question 10 in Quiz of Module 2 is “Without positional encodings, how would a transformer process the phrase ‘The mouse sat on the elephant’ compared to ‘The elephant sat on the mouse’?” Out of the given options, th…

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## [Error in Graded Lab1, exercise 2](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/error-in-graded-lab1-exercise-2/892399)

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**Author:** [@Guillermo\_Acosta](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Guillermo_Acosta)\
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**Last updated:** [June 12, 2026, 8:15am UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/error-in-graded-lab1-exercise-2/892399 "2026-06-12T08:15:50Z")

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Cannot make exercise 2 work because result = constrained\_gen(formatted) returns str instead of JSON object so it raises exception: 'str' object has no attribute 'issue\_type' As outlines documentation says, Outlines gen…

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## [GPU Overhead in](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/gpu-overhead-in/892275)

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**Author:** [@Lijie\_Tu](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Lijie_Tu)\
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**Last updated:** [May 18, 2026, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/gpu-overhead-in/892275 "2026-05-18T16:41:49Z")

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The test actually shows the smallest model has the worst throughput Throughput comparison: qwen-0.5b (0.5B): 10.6 tok/s | 100 tokens in 9.45s ✓ Unloaded Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct Loading Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruc…

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## [Module1 Graded assignment is not loading Timing out](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/module1-graded-assignment-is-not-loading-timing-out/892180)

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**Author:** [@Riyaz\_Shaik](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/Riyaz_Shaik)\
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**Last updated:** [May 14, 2026, 3:36am UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/module1-graded-assignment-is-not-loading-timing-out/892180 "2026-05-14T03:36:15Z")

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Hi - I have enrolled to Transformers in practice course today. However, i have realized that Module 1 Graded assignment is not loading upon multiple attempts to refresh the page. It’s just timeout. Would you test, troub…

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## [Transformers in Practice: Lecture Notes](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/transformers-in-practice-lecture-notes/892137)

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**Author:** [@andres.gonzalez](https://community.deeplearning.ai/u/andres.gonzalez)\
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**Last updated:** [May 11, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.deeplearning.ai/t/transformers-in-practice-lecture-notes/892137 "2026-05-11T16:26:15Z")

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Lecture notes of the Transformers in Practice course. Note: These slides haven’t been maintained, and you might find missing topics and incorrect information in them, as opposed to lecture videos, where we try to update…
