Generative AI and LLMs: Architecture and Data Preparation
Completed by Maura Lapoff
February 7, 2026
5 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
Differentiate between generative AI architectures and models, such as RNNs, transformers, VAEs, GANs, and diffusion models
Describe how LLMs, such as GPT, BERT, BART, and T5, are applied in natural language processing tasks
Implement tokenization to preprocess raw text using NLP libraries like NLTK, spaCy, BertTokenizer, and XLNetTokenizer
Create an NLP data loader in PyTorch that handles tokenization, numericalization, and padding for text datasets
Skills you will gain
- Category: Responsible AI
- Category: Data Pipelines
- Category: LLM Application
- Category: Generative Model Architectures
- Category: Hugging Face
- Category: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
- Category: Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
- Category: Data Preprocessing
- Category: Model Training
- Category: Generative AI
- Category: Natural Language Processing
- Category: Artificial Intelligence
