Summary: Fine-Tuning BERT Models

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BERT brings bidirectional attention to transformers. Predicting sequences from left to right and masking the future tokens to train a model has serious limitations. If the masked sequence contains the meaning we are looking for, the model will produce errors. BERT attends to all of the tokens of a sequence at the same time.

We explored the architecture of BERT, which only uses the encoder stack of transformers. BERT was designed as a two-step framework. The first step of the framework is to pretrain a model. The second step is to fine-tune the model. We built a fine-tuning BERT model for an acceptability judgment downstream task. The fine-tuning process went through all phases of the process. First, we loaded the dataset and the necessary pretrained modules of the model. Then, the model was trained, and its performance was measured.

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Course Introduction

Basics of Transformers

Architecture of the Transformer Model

Fine-Tuning BERT Models

Pretraining a RoBERTa Model from Scratch

Downstream NLP Tasks with Transformers

Machine Translation with the Transformer

The Rise of Transformers with GPT-3 Engines

Applying Transformers for AI Text Summarization

Matching Tokenizers and Datasets

Transformers for NLP—Exam 1

Semantic Role Labeling with BERT-Based Transformers

Your Data Speaks: Story, Questions, and Answers

Detecting Customer Emotions to Make Predictions

Analyzing Fake News with Transformers

Interpreting Black Box Transformer Models

From NLP to Task-Agnostic Transfomer Models

The Emergence of Transformer-Driven Copilots

Transformers for NLP—Exam 2

Conclusion

Appendix

Summary: Fine-Tuning BERT Models