Generative AI for NLP with PyTorch
IBM via Coursera Specialization
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AI roles are forecast to grow more than 5x faster than the overall job market over the next decade (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics). Employers need professionals who can build, train, and deploy real-world models.
This IBM specialization helps aspiring AI professionals build the PyTorch, deep learning, GenAI, and NLP skills used by Machine Learning Engineers, NLP Engineers, Deep Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, and AI Research Analysts.
You’ll start with PyTorch tensor fundamentals and build toward trained neural networks, CNNs, and transformer-based language models. You’ll learn to implement gradient descent, backpropagation, dropout, batch normalization, GPU acceleration, attention mechanisms, tokenization, positional encoding, and multi-head attention. Plus, you’ll fine-tune pretrained transformer models, including BERT and DistilBERT, with Hugging Face, and examine GPT-style architectures.
In the capstone, you’ll use GenAI code generation and review support to build a shareable NLP project. You’ll create a text classification pipeline, train an LSTM model, fine-tune a DistilBERT model on the same dataset, and compare their performance with accuracy and F1.
You’ll also gain practical experience with NLP workflows, transformer-based architectures, prompt-assisted coding, code review, and model evaluation– valuable skills for GenAI tools.
Enroll now to develop PyTorch, transformer and NLP modeling skills employers are actively seeking!
Syllabus
- Course 1: Introduction to Neural Networks and PyTorch
- Course 2: Deep Learning with PyTorch
- Course 3: Generative AI Language Modeling with Transformers
- Course 4: Generative AI for NLP with PyTorch Capstone Project
Courses
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Get ready to build the foundational PyTorch skills you need to launch your career as an AI Engineer – the fastest growing job title in the United States. Starting with tensors, this course takes you right through to fully trained classification models. You will master tensor operations, build custom datasets, and implement linear regression models using PyTorch's nn.Module and autograd system. Then, you will progress through gradient descent, stochastic and mini-batch training, loss functions, and training/validation workflows. Further, you will build logistic regression classifiers, apply cross-entropy loss, and implement advanced optimization and regularization techniques. Through interactive labs, instructional videos, and an AI-assisted dialogue, you will practice building, training, and evaluating models using real PyTorch code patterns. By the end, you will create a portfolio-worthy project that demonstrates your ability to perform PyTorch classification and gradient-based optimization tasks. Enroll now to enhance your resume and complete a project that showcases your hands-on skills in the AI-driven job market.
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This course provides a practical introduction to using transformer-based models for natural language processing (NLP) applications. You will learn to build and train models for text classification using encoder-based architectures like Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), and explore core concepts such as positional encoding, word embeddings, and attention mechanisms. The course covers multi-head attention, self-attention, and causal language modeling with GPT for tasks like text generation and translation. You will gain hands-on experience implementing transformer models in PyTorch, including pretraining strategies such as masked language modeling (MLM) and next sentence prediction (NSP). Through guided labs, you’ll apply encoder and decoder models to real-world scenarios. This course is designed for learners interested in generative AI engineering and requires prior knowledge of Python, PyTorch, and machine learning. Enroll now to build your skills in NLP with transformers!
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Get hands-on experience in building and deploying intelligent systems using PyTorch by using one of the most widely used deep learning frameworks in AI development. In this practical course, you’ll gain job-ready skills in deep learning, machine learning, and neural networks, boosting your resume for roles like AI Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, and Data Scientist. During the course, you’ll implement logistic regression and softmax regression, train deep neural networks, and build convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for real-world image classification tasks. You’ll master core techniques such as gradient descent, backpropagation, and cross entropy loss, while improving performance with weight initialization, dropout regularization, and batch normalization. Additionally, you’ll leverage GPU acceleration, perform hyperparameter tuning, and apply transfer learning using pretrained models such as ResNet18. Finally, you’ll complete a project, where you’ll design, train, and evaluate models using modern model optimization and data preprocessing workflows. Great to talk about in interviews! Enroll today to accelerate your career in deep learning, AI, and machine learning.
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Get ready to put your Generative AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and PyTorch skills into action in this hands-on capstone project from IBM. During this course, you’ll solve a real-world text classification challenge by building an end-to-end NLP workflow, from raw text processing to model evaluation. You’ll design and implement complete pipelines, including text preprocessing, tokenization, vocabulary creation, and dataset preparation using PyTorch Dataset and DataLoader. You’ll train and compare RNN, LSTM, and Transformer models, and explore how each architecture processes language differently. Plus, you’ll fine-tune pretrained models using Hugging Face Transformers, applying techniques used in production-grade AI systems. By the end of the course, you’ll have a portfolio-worthy capstone project that showcases your ability to build, optimize, and evaluate NLP models using metrics such as accuracy and F1-score. Great for talking about in interviews. Enroll today to strengthen your Generative AI and NLP skills and showcase your expertise with this powerful, job-oriented capstone project.
Taught by
Fateme Akbari, Harish Pant, IBM Skills Network Team, Joseph Santarcangelo and Kang Wang