In this chapter, you'll uncover the secrets and practical intricacies of transformers, the most popular deep learning architecture used to create today's most successful Language Models. Step by step, and aided by the PyTorch library, you'll learn how to manually design and configure different types of transformer architectures. You'll develop a strong understanding of their core elements, including self-attention mechanisms, encoder and decoder layers, and specialized model heads designed for specific language tasks and use cases.