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Mastering Transformers

You're reading from   Mastering Transformers Build state-of-the-art models from scratch with advanced natural language processing techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801077651
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction – Recent Developments in the Field, Installations, and Hello World Applications
2. Chapter 1: From Bag-of-Words to the Transformer FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: A Hands-On Introduction to the Subject 4. Section 2: Transformer Models – From Autoencoding to Autoregressive Models
5. Chapter 3: Autoencoding Language Models 6. Chapter 4:Autoregressive and Other Language Models 7. Chapter 5: Fine-Tuning Language Models for Text Classification 8. Chapter 6: Fine-Tuning Language Models for Token Classification 9. Chapter 7: Text Representation 10. Section 3: Advanced Topics
11. Chapter 8: Working with Efficient Transformers 12. Chapter 9:Cross-Lingual and Multilingual Language Modeling 13. Chapter 10: Serving Transformer Models 14. Chapter 11: Attention Visualization and Experiment Tracking 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Training a classification model with native PyTorch

The Trainer class is very powerful, and we have the HuggingFace team to thank for providing such a useful tool. However, in this section, we will fine-tune the pre-trained model from scratch to see what happens under the hood. Let's get started:

  1. First, let's load the model for fine-tuning. We will select DistilBERT here since it is a small, fast, and cheap version of BERT:
    from transformers import DistilBertForSequenceClassification
    model = DistilBertForSequenceClassification.from_pre-trained('distilbert-base-uncased')
  2. To fine-tune any model, we need to put it into training mode, as follows:
    model.train()
  3. Now, we must load the tokenizer:
    from transformers import DistilBertTokenizerFast
    tokenizer = DistilBertTokenizerFast.from_pre-trained('bert-base-uncased')
  4. Since the Trainer class organized the entire process for us, we did not deal with optimization and other training settings in...
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