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Generative AI and LLMs: Architecture and Data Preparation
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Generative AI and LLMs: Architecture and Data Preparation
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Instructors: Joseph Santarcangelo +1 more
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What you'll 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'll gain
- Category: Model Training
- Category: Large Language Modeling
- Category: Generative Model Architectures
- Category: Data Pipelines
- Category: Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
- Category: Natural Language Processing
- Category: Data Preprocessing
- Category: LLM Application
Tools you'll learn
- Category: Generative AI
- Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
- Category: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
- Category: Hugging Face
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Reviewed on Jul 22, 2025
his course is sufficient to introduce the different architectures of LLMs and enable you to prepare data for training models.
Reviewed on Mar 24, 2025
Too fast reading of the slides without much of explanations.
Reviewed on Oct 20, 2024
I highly recommend using a human to deliver the lectures, which might enhance student engagement. Great introductory course.
