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Generative AI and LLMs: Architecture and Data Preparation

Generative AI and LLMs: Architecture and Data Preparation
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Instructors: Joseph Santarcangelo
Access provided by Sadhana Shikshan Mandal - Saraswati College
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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
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Reviewed on Jul 29, 2025
I would expect more hands on and code submissions
Reviewed on Feb 28, 2025
Was waiting for a course like this for a long time. Very happy with it. Library installation on labs seems a bit slow
Reviewed on Jul 31, 2025
gives a clear overview on genai - basics specifically tokenization, & data loader concepts

