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Getting Started with Google BERT

Gain insights into Google's BERT architecture, delve into transformer basics, and explore various BERT variants. Learn about pre-training, practical NLP applications, and excelling in language processing.

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120 Lessons

25h

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Course Overview

The transformer, a cutting-edge deep learning architecture, plays a pivotal role in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Leading NLP models like BERT, GPT, and T5 are based on the transformer. BERT, in particular, has revolutionized NLP by delivering state-of-the-art results. This course is your entry into Google's BERT architecture. It begins with the basics of transformers and covers encoder and decoder mechanisms. You will learn to pre-train and use BERT. Exploring various BERT variants and related ...Show More

The transformer, a cutting-edge deep learning architecture, plays a pivotal role in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Lea...Show More

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Transformer Models

Machine Learning

What You'll Learn

An in-depth knowledge of transformer models, including the workings of encoders and decoders

A firm grasp of BERT’s core concepts, pre-training methods, and subword tokenization algorithms

The ability to effectively use pre-trained BERT models, from extracting contextual embeddings to fine-tuning for various tasks

A thorough understanding of various BERT variants, such as ALBERT, RoBERTa, ELECTRA, and SpanBERT

An understanding of BERT’s applications in multilingual contexts and domain-specific variants like ClinicalBERT and BioBERT

An in-depth knowledge of transformer models, including the workings of encoders and decoders

Course Content

Before We Start

1 Lessons

Get familiar with Google's BERT architecture for NLP tasks and fine-tuning methods.

About the course

Starting Off with BERT

1 Lessons

Look at BERT’s architecture, pre-training tasks, and applications in NLP tasks.

Introduction: BERT

A Primer on Transformers

18 Lessons

Work your way through the transformer architecture, including encoder-decoder components and self-attention mechanisms.

Introduction to the Transformer

Understanding the Encoder of the Transformer

Self-Attention Mechanism

Understanding the Self-Attention Mechanism

Multi-Head Attention Mechanism

Learning Position with Positional Encoding

Encoder: Feedforward and Add and Norm Component

Putting All the Encoder Components Together

Understanding the Decoder of the Transformer

Masked Multi-Head Attention

Multi-Head Attention

Decoder: Feedforward and Add and Norm Component

Putting All the Decoder Components Together

Putting the Encoder and Decoder Together

Summary: A Primer on Transformers

Exercise: A Primer on Transformers

Exercise: Decoder Architecture

Quiz: A Primer on Transformers

Understanding the BERT Model

14 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of the BERT model's architecture, training, and tokenization methods.

Introduction to the BERT Model

Working of BERT

Configurations of BERT

Pre-Training the BERT Model

The WordPiece Tokenizer

Pre-Training Strategies for the BERT Model

Masked Language Modeling

Next Sentence Prediction

Pre-Training Procedure

Subword Tokenization Algorithms

Byte Pair Encoding

Byte-Level Byte Pair Encoding and WordPiece Algorithms

Summary: Understanding the BERT Model

Quiz: Understanding the BERT Model

Getting Hands-On with BERT

11 Lessons

Solve problems in applying pre-trained BERT for various NLP tasks using embeddings.

Exploring the Pre-Trained BERT Model

Transformers

Extracting Embeddings From All Encoder Layers of BERT

Fine-Tuning BERT for Downstream Tasks

Sentiment Analysis

Natural Language Interface

Question-Answering

Performing Question-Answering with the Fine-Tuned BERT

Named Entity Recognition

Summary: Getting Hands-On with BERT

Quiz: Getting Hands-On with BERT

Exploring BERT Variants

1 Lessons

Focus on notable BERT variants and their architectural enhancements for efficient performance.

Introducion: BERT Variants

Different BERT Variants

12 Lessons

Practice using ALBERT, RoBERTa, ELECTRA, and SpanBERT for task-specific NLP improvements.

ALBERT

ALBERT : Training the Model

ALBERT : Embeddings Extraction

RoBERTa

RoBERTa Tokenizer

ELECTRA

Generator and Discriminator of the ELECTRA Model

Training the ELECTRA Model

SpanBERT

SpanBERT: Exploring Architecture

Summary: Different BERT Variants

Quiz: Different BERT Variants

BERT Variants—Based on Knowledge Distillation

14 Lessons

Try out knowledge distillation in BERT variants, including DistilBERT and TinyBERT.

Knowledge Distillation

Training the Student Network

DistilBERT

Training the Student BERT (DistilBERT)

TinyBERT

Teacher-Student Architecture

Distillation of Transformer Layer

Distillation of Embedding and Prediction Layer

Distillation Techniques for Pre-training and Fine-tuning

Data Augmentation

Transferring Knowledge from BERT to Neural Networks

The Data Augmentation Methods

Summary: BERT Variants—Based on Knowledge Distillation

Quiz: BERT Variants—Based on Knowledge Distillation

Applications of BERT

1 Lessons

Look at BERT's diverse applications in text summarization, multilingual tasks, and specialized fields.

Introduction: Applications of BERT

10.

Exploring BERTSUM for Text Summarization

8 Lessons

Examine text summarization and fine-tuning BERTSUM for extractive and abstractive summaries.

Text Summarization

Fine-Tuning BERT for Extractive Summarization

BERTSUM for Extractive Summary

BERTSUM for Abstractive Summarization

ROUGE Evaluation Metrics

Training the BERTSUM Model

Summary: Exploring BERTSUM for Text Summarization

Quiz: Exploring BERTSUM for Text Summarization

11.

Applying BERT to Other Languages

18 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of utilizing multilingual and monolingual BERT models in various languages.

Understanding Multilingual BERT

Evaluating M-BERT on the NLI task

How Multilingual is Multilingual BERT?

M-BERT Generalization

Effect of Code-Switching and Transliteration

The Cross-Lingual Language Model (XLM)

The XLM-R Model

Language-Specific BERT

BERT Models for Italian and Portuguese

RuBERT for Russian

Summary: Applying BERT to Other Languages

Quiz: Applying BERT to Other Languages

12.

Exploring Sentence and Domain-Specific BERT

10 Lessons

Dig into Sentence-BERT enhancements and domain-specific adaptations like ClinicalBERT and BioBERT.

Sentence-BERT

Sentence-BERT with a Siamese Network

Sentence-BERT with a Triplet Network

Use Cases of Sentence-BERT Model

Learning Multilingual Embeddings Through Knowledge Distillation

Multilingual Sentence-BERT Model

Domain-Specific BERT

BioBERT

Summary: Exploring Sentence and Domain-Specific BERT

Quiz: Exploring Sentence and Domain-Specific BERT

13.

Working with VideoBERT, BART, and More

10 Lessons

See how VideoBERT integrates video and language, and explore BART's text, document summation.

VideoBERT Model

Pre-training Dataset and Applications of VideoBERT

BART Model

Noising Techniques

Performing Text Summarization with BART

Exploring BERT Libraries

Building a Document Answering Model

Document Summarization

Summary: Working with VideoBERT, BART, and More

Quiz: Working with VideoBERT, BART, and More

14.

Conclusion

1 Lessons

Approach Google BERT for state-of-the-art NLP applications and innovative projects.

What We've Learned

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Project

Build a Language Detector

beginner

1 hour

Project

Build a Language Detector

Create a language detection application in Python, that uses n-grams to identify languages in text documents, allowing easy expansion for more languages.

beginner

1 hour

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