This course provides a practical introduction to using transformer-based models for natural language processing (NLP) applications. You will learn to build and train models for text classification using encoder-based architectures like Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), and explore core concepts such as positional encoding, word embeddings, and attention mechanisms.

Generative AI Language Modeling with Transformers
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Generative AI Language Modeling with Transformers
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What you'll learn
Explain the role of attention mechanisms in transformer models for capturing contextual relationships in text
Describe the differences in language modeling approaches between decoder-based models like GPT and encoder-based models like BERT
Implement key components of transformer models, including positional encoding, attention mechanisms, and masking, using PyTorch
Apply transformer-based models for real-world NLP tasks, such as text classification and language translation, using PyTorch and Hugging Face tools
Skills you'll gain
- Category: Data Preprocessing
- Category: Applied Machine Learning
- Category: Generative Model Architectures
- Category: Natural Language Processing
- Category: Embeddings
- Category: Model Training
- Category: Transfer Learning
- Category: Model Optimization
- Category: Large Language Modeling
Tools you'll learn
- Category: Generative AI
- Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
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Reviewed on Oct 10, 2024
Once again, great content and not that great documentation (printable cheatsheets, no slides, etc). Documentation is essential to review a course content in the future. Alas!
Reviewed on Dec 29, 2024
This course gives me a wide picture of what transformers can be.
Reviewed on Sep 1, 2025
I loved this course. It is very informative and has a lot of examples. It will take some time to master all this information.
