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Create Your Own Language Models from Scratch

PROJECT


Create Your Own Language Models from Scratch

In this project, we’ll build and compare simple n-gram models and a recurrent neural network (RNN) to generate realistic-sounding names from scratch.

Create Your Own Language Models from Scratch

You will learn to:

Develop basic language models using bigrams and trigrams.

Design and implement neural network architectures for language modeling.

Train a custom recurrent neural network (RNN) model for text generation.

Generate coherent text using the trained language models.

Skills

Data Science

Data Visualization

Text Preprocessing

Machine Learning

Neural Networks

Prerequisites

Good understanding of Python programming language

Basic knowledge of natural language processing (NLP)

Experience with data preprocessing and handling textual data in machine learning contexts

Familiarity with neural networks and deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow or PyTorch

Technologies

Python

PyTorch

Matplotlib

Project Description

In this project, we’ll learn how to build language models from scratch, using easy-to-follow techniques to generate text. We’ll focus on working with a dataset of names to show how different models can create realistic and interesting text. We’ll start with simple models (bigrams and trigrams) to see how they generate names, then move on to a more advanced RNN model to show how much more it can do.

In the first part, we’ll build a basic Bigram language model to create and optimize names using trigrams. This will help us understand the benefits of using more complex n-gram models. In the second part, we’ll use neural networks to improve our model. We’ll design a custom RNN to better understand the patterns in names. After training our RNN, we’ll use it to generate names, demonstrating the effectiveness of neural networks in creating more natural-sounding text.

Project Tasks

1

Foundations of Language Modeling

Task 0: Get Started

Task 1: Import Necessary Modules

Task 2: Load and Preprocess the Text Data

Task 3: Build and Visualize the Bigram Lookup Table

Task 4: Generate Names with the Bigram Language Model

Task 5: Generate Names Utilizing Trigrams

2

Enhance Language Models with NNs

Task 6: Define a Decoder and Convert Characters to Tensors

Task 7: Design the RNN Architecture for Language Modeling

Task 8: Write Functions to Generate the Text

Task 9: Train the Custom RNN Model

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