Fine-tuning a BERT model for single-sentence binary classification
In this section, we will discuss how to fine-tune a pre-trained BERT model for sentiment analysis by using the popular IMDb sentiment
dataset. Working with a GPU will speed up our learning process, but if you do not have such resources, you can work with a CPU as well for fine-tuning. Let's get started:
- To learn about and save our current device, we can execute the following lines of code:
from torch import cuda device = 'cuda' if cuda.is_available() else 'cpu'
- We will use the
DistilBertForSequenceClassification
class here, which is inherited from theDistilBert
class, with a special sequence classification head at the top. We can utilize this classification head to train the classification model, where the number of classes is2
by default:from transformers import DistilBertTokenizerFast, DistilBertForSequenceClassification model_path= 'distilbert-base-uncased' tokenizer...