Generative AI and LLMs: Architecture and Data Preparation
Completed by Mark van Otterlo
February 22, 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: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
- Category: LLM Application
- Category: Data Pipelines
- Category: Hugging Face
- Category: Generative Model Architectures
- Category: Data Preprocessing
- Category: Artificial Intelligence
- Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
- Category: Large Language Modeling
- Category: Model Training
- Category: Generative AI
