### Introduction
The field of **NLP** was revolutionized in the year 2018 by introduction of **BERT** and his **Transformer** friends(RoBerta, XLM etc.).
These novel transformer based neural network architectures and new ways to training a neural network on natural language data introduced transfer learning to NLP problems. Transfer learning had been giving out state of the art results in the Computer Vision domain for a few years now and introduction of transformer models for NLP brought about the same paradigm change in NLP.
Companies like [Google](https://github.com/google-research/bert) and [Facebook](https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/master/examples/roberta) trained their neural networks on large swathes of Natural Language Data to grasp the intricacies of language thereby generating a Language model. Finally these models were fine tuned to specific domain dataset to achieve state of the art results for a specific problem statement. They also published these trained models to open source community. The community members were now able to fine tune these models to their specific use cases.
[Hugging Face](https://github.com/huggingface) made it easier for community to access and fine tune these models using their Python Package: [Transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers).
### Motivation
Despite these amazing technological advancements applying these solutions to business problems is still a challenge given the niche knowledge required to understand and apply these method on specific problem statements. Hence, In the following tutorials i will be demonstrating how a user can leverage technologies along with some other python tools to fine tune these Language models to specific type of tasks.
Before i proceed i will like to mention the following groups for the fantastic work they are doing and sharing which have made these notebooks and tutorials possible:
Please review these amazing sources of information and subscribe to their channels/sources.
- [Hugging Face Team](https://huggingface.co/)
- Abhishek Thakur for his amazing [Youtube videos](https://www.youtube.com/user/abhisheksvnit)
The problem statements that i will be working with are:
| Notebook |Github Link |Colab Link|Kaggle Kernel|
|--|--|--|--|
|Text Classification: Multi-Class| [Github](https://github.com/abhimishra91/transformers-tutorials/blob/master/transformers_multiclass_classification.ipynb) |[](https://colab.research.google.com/github/abhimishra91/transformers-tutorials/blob/master/transformers_multiclass_classification.ipynb)|[Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/eggwhites2705/transformers-multiclass-classification-ipynb)|
|Text Classification: Multi-Label| [Github](https://github.com/abhimishra91/transformers-tutorials/blob/master/transformers_multi_label_classification.ipynb)|[](https://colab.research.google.com/github/abhimishra91/transformers-tutorials/blob/master/transformers_multi_label_classification.ipynb)|[Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/eggwhites2705/transformers-multi-label-classification)|
|Sentiment Classification **with Experiment Tracking in [WandB](https://app.wandb.ai/abhimishra-91/transformers_tutorials_sentiment/runs/1zwn4gbg?workspace=user-abhimishra-91)!**|[Github](https://github.com/abhimishra91/transformers-tutorials/blob/master/transformers_sentiment_wandb.ipynb)|[](https://colab.research.google.com/github/abhimishra91/transformers-tutorials/blob/master/transformers_sentiment_wandb.ipynb)||
|Named Entity Recognition: **with TPU processing!**|[Github](https://github.com/abhimishra91/transformers-tutorials/blob/master/transformers_ner.ipynb)|[](https://colab.research.google.com/github/abhimishra91/transformers-tutorials/blob/master/transformers_ner.ipynb)|[Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/eggwhites2705/transformers-ner)|
|Question Answering||||
|Summary Writing: **with Experiment Tracking in [WandB](https://app.wandb.ai/abhimishra-91/transformers_tutorials_summarization?workspace=user-abhimishra-91)!**|[Github](https://github.com/abhimishra91/transformers-tutorials/blob/master/transformers_summarization_wandb.ipynb)|[](https://colab.research.google.com/github/abhimishra91/transformers-tutorials/blob/master/transformers_summarization_wandb.ipynb)|[Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/eggwhites2705/transformers-summarization-t5/output)|
### Directory Structure
1. `data`: This folder contains all the toy data used for fine tuning.
2. `utils`: This folder will contain any miscellaneous script used to prepare for the fine tuning.
3. `models`: Folder to save all the artifacts post fine tuning.
### Further Watching/Reading
I will try to cover the practical and implementation aspects of fine tuning of these language models on various NLP tasks. You can improve your knowledge on this topic by reading/watching the following resources.
- Watching
- [Introduction in Simple terms](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcHkxP9adiM)
- [Transfer Learning in NLP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T_Qr4qBrqc)
- [BERT Research Series from ChrisMcCormickAI](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLam9sigHPGwOBuH4_4fr-XvDbe5uneaf6)
- Reading
- [Transformers Documentation](https://huggingface.co/transformers/)
- [Pytorch Documentation](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/index.html)
- [Google AI Blog](https://ai.googleblog.com/)
