"This intermediate-level course takes you beyond AI theory into the practical world of Natural Language Processing (NLP) powered by Transformer architectures. You’ll trace the evolution of language models—from traditional statistical methods and recurrent networks to attention-based systems like BERT, GPT, and T5—through engaging demos and real-world case studies.

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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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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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Mid-level professionals, data scientists, and developers seeking hands-on experience with NLP and AI models.
Basic Python and familiarity with data science libraries like NumPy or pandas are recommended.
You’ll primarily use Hugging Face Transformers, Datasets, and Inference APIs, along with Jupyter and Colab.
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