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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: Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
- Category: Natural Language Processing
- Category: Large Language Modeling
- Category: LLM Application
- Category: Model Training
- Category: Data Pipelines
- Category: Data Preprocessing
- Category: Generative Model Architectures
Tools you'll learn
- Category: Hugging Face
- Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
- Category: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
- Category: Generative AI
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Reviewed on Mar 2, 2025
I love the structure and the content in this course. I can't wait applying the skills I have acquired!
Reviewed on Jul 29, 2025
I would expect more hands on and code submissions
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.
