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Transformers in Action: A Practical Approach to NLP and AI

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Transformers in Action: A Practical Approach to NLP and AI

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

2 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

2 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Master Transformer architectures and attention mechanisms driving modern NLP.

  • Fine-tune pretrained models using Hugging Face for real-world NLP tasks.

  • Build, evaluate, and deploy end-to-end NLP workflows with confidence.

  • Apply Transformers to tasks like summarization, translation, and sentiment.

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November 2025

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20 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 4 modules in this course

Explore how Natural Language Processing evolved from rule-based and sequential models to attention-driven architectures. Learn tokenization, embeddings, and self-attention concepts through visual demos and hands-on mini-projects that build a strong foundation for understanding Transformers.

What's included

13 videos7 readings5 assignments1 discussion prompt1 ungraded lab1 plugin

Dive into the anatomy of major Transformer families like BERT, GPT, and T5. Learn how different pretraining objectives — such as Masked Language Modeling and Causal Language Modeling — shape model capabilities, and practice running inference and fine-tuning tasks using Hugging Face Transformers.

What's included

12 videos5 readings5 assignments1 ungraded lab

Build and train NLP models end-to-end using Hugging Face pipelines, Datasets, and the Trainer API. Explore dataset preparation, hyperparameter tuning, evaluation metrics, and model deployment to the Hugging Face Hub while learning best practices for debugging and performance monitoring.

What's included

12 videos4 readings5 assignments

Apply Transformer models to real-world NLP problems like summarization, question answering, and semantic similarity. Learn optimization techniques such as distillation and quantization, then design and present a capstone NLP project that integrates fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment workflows.

What's included

13 videos3 readings5 assignments

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