Introduction to Encoder-Decoder Models -- ELI5 Way

My name is Niranjan Kumar and I'm a Senior Consultant Data Science at Allstate India. In this article, we will discuss the basic concepts of Encoder-Decoder models and it's applications in some of the tasks like language modeling, image captioning, text entailment, and machine transliteration. Citation Note: The content and the structure of this article is based on my understanding of the deep learning lectures from One-Fourth Labs -- PadhAI. Before we discuss the concepts of Encoder-Decoder models, we will start by revisiting the task of language modeling. Language Modeling is the task of predicting what word/letter comes next.