Generative AI and LLMs: Architecture and Data Preparation
Completed by Dasun Srikantha
January 4, 2026
5 hours (approximately)
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What you will 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 will gain
- Category: Data Preprocessing
- Category: Large Language Modeling
- Category: Artificial Intelligence
- Category: Natural Language Processing
- Category: Hugging Face
- Category: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
- Category: Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
- Category: Generative AI
- Category: Generative Model Architectures
- Category: PyTorch (Machine Learning Library)
- Category: Text Mining
- Category: Data Pipelines

