Spam SMS Detection

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intermediate Python and PyTorch • basics of natural language processing
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loading and configuring pretrained DistilBERT model using Hugging Face • building and training a text classifier using PyTorch Lightning • validating the performance of the model and quantifying the results
Rohan Khilnani
1 week · 7-10 hours per week · ADVANCED
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In this liveProject, you’ll use the DistilBERT variation of the BERT Transformer to detect and block occurrences of spam emails in a data set. You’ll utilize binary classification to determine whether an email is spam, or legitimate. The DistilBERT model uses knowledge distillation to highly reduce the size of the transformer model, thus optimizing time and resources. You’ll learn to use the HuggingFace library to load your data set, and fine-tune it to your task with PyTorch Lightning. You’ll also explore alternative training approaches that utilize novel APIs in the transformers library to fine-tune pre trained DistilBERT models. Every part of an NLP pipeline is covered, from preprocessing your data to remove symbols and numbers, to model training and validation using F1-scoring to assess the robustness of your pipeline.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.

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Rohan Khilnani
Rohan Khilnani is a data scientist at Optum, United Health Group. He has filed two patents in the field of natural language processing and has also published a research paper on LSTMs with Attention at the COLING conference in 2018.

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This liveProject is for intermediate Python and NLP practitioners who are interested in implementing pretrained BERT architectures and customizing them to solve real-world NLP problems. To begin this liveProject you will need to be familiar with:

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  • Intermediate Python
  • Intermediate PyTorch
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  • Basics of machine learning
  • Basics of neural networks
  • Basics of natural language processing

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