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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: LLM Application
- Category: Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
- Category: Data Preprocessing
- Category: Data Pipelines
- Category: Large Language Modeling
- Category: Generative Model Architectures
- Category: Model Training
- Category: Natural Language Processing
Tools you'll learn
- Category: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
- Category: Hugging Face
- Category: Generative AI
- Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
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Reviewed on Jan 3, 2025
It was very informative and I enjoyed the journey I learned the patterns from the deep.
Reviewed on Mar 1, 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 Aug 1, 2025
gives a clear overview on genai - basics specifically tokenization, & data loader concepts