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Published inSep 2021
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Savaş Yıldırım
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Savaş Yıldırım

Savaş Yıldırım graduated from the Istanbul Technical University Department of Computer Engineering and holds a Ph.D. degree in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Currently, he is an associate professor at the Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, and is a visiting researcher at the Ryerson University, Canada. He is a proactive lecturer and researcher with more than 20 years of experience teaching courses on machine learning, deep learning, and NLP. He has significantly contributed to the Turkish NLP community by developing a lot of open source software and resources. He also provides comprehensive consultancy to AI companies on their R&D projects. In his spare time, he writes and directs short films, and enjoys practicing yoga.
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Meysam Asgari- Chenaghlu
Meysam Asgari- Chenaghlu
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Meysam Asgari- Chenaghlu

Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu is an AI manager at Carbon Consulting and is also a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tabriz. He has been a consultant for Turkey's leading telecommunication and banking companies. He has also worked on various projects, including natural language understanding and semantic search.
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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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Savaş Yıldırım

Savaş Yıldırım graduated from the Istanbul Technical University Department of Computer Engineering and holds a Ph.D. degree in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Currently, he is an associate professor at the Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, and is a visiting researcher at the Ryerson University, Canada. He is a proactive lecturer and researcher with more than 20 years of experience teaching courses on machine learning, deep learning, and NLP. He has significantly contributed to the Turkish NLP community by developing a lot of open source software and resources. He also provides comprehensive consultancy to AI companies on their R&D projects. In his spare time, he writes and directs short films, and enjoys practicing yoga.
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Meysam Asgari- Chenaghlu

Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu is an AI manager at Carbon Consulting and is also a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tabriz. He has been a consultant for Turkey's leading telecommunication and banking companies. He has also worked on various projects, including natural language understanding and semantic search.
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