This IBM course will equip you with the skills to implement, train, and evaluate generative AI models for natural language processing (NLP) using PyTorch. You will explore core NLP tasks, such as document classification, language modeling, and language translation, and gain a foundation in building small and large language models.

Gen AI Foundational Models for NLP & Language Understanding
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Gen AI Foundational Models for NLP & Language Understanding
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Instructors: Joseph Santarcangelo
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Explain how one-hot encoding, bag-of-words, embeddings, and embedding bags transform text into numerical features for NLP models
Implement Word2Vec models using CBOW and Skip-gram architectures to generate contextual word embeddings
Develop and train neural network-based language models using statistical N-Grams and feedforward architectures
Build sequence-to-sequence models with encoder–decoder RNNs for tasks such as machine translation and sequence transformation
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Reviewed on Jan 31, 2025
the material is topnotch but the delivery is a bit fast I would rather it was slower
Reviewed on Oct 8, 2025
Great course to get involved with NLP and GenAI, It has the good balance between necessary explanations and lab examples. It would have been nice to have access to GPUs in the labs.
Reviewed on Oct 26, 2025
The lab materials are very complicated could be made abstract using tensorflow.

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