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- intermediate Python • intermediate PyTorch • basics of Natural Language Processing • basics of Google Colab
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- loading and preprocessing a text data set • tokenizing data using pretrained tokenizers • loading and configuring pretrained ALBERT, RoBERTa, and DistilBERT models using Hugging Face
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In this series of liveProjects, you’ll use variants of the BERT Transformer to solve real-world natural language processing problems. Transformers are pretrained machine learning models and are rapidly becoming the go-to architecture for any NLP use case. As you work through the hands-on challenges in this liveProject series, you’ll get real experience implementing state-of-the-art Transformer architectures, using the Hugging Face library, for use cases such as detecting hate speech, spotting fake news, and blocking spam. Each project is standalone, letting you pick and choose the application most relevant to your career. For each, you’ll create an entire NLP pipeline that stretches from preprocessing data all the way to validating model performance.
These projects are designed for learning purposes and are not complete, production-ready applications or solutions.
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Prerequisites
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 the following:
TOOLS
- Intermediate Python
- Intermediate PyTorch
- Basics of Google Colab
- Basics of machine learning
- Basics of neural networks
- Basics of natural language processing
you will learn
In this liveProject, you will develop hands-on experience in building a text classifier using PyTorch Lightning and Hugging Face. You’ll also get practical experience working on GPUs in the Google Colab environment.
- Working with Jupyter Notebook on Google Colab
- Loading and preprocessing a text data set
- Tokenizing data using pretrained tokenizers
- Creating dataloaders and tensor data sets
- Loading and configuring pretrained ALBERT model using Hugging Face
- Building and training a text classifier using PyTorch Lightning
- Validating the performance of the model by optimizing its precision score
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- Get full access to select books for 90 days. Permanent access to excerpts from Manning products are also included, as well as references to other resources.
