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This a follow-up to the "Pre-Trained Language Models: A New Standard for NLU Tasks" sessions held on Jan 18 & 19, 2023, where we introduced pre-trained language models and explained how they have become a new standard for solving various NLP tasks.

In this session, we will start with a quick recap of the previous session and then do a deep dive into the tools and frameworks for loading and fine-tuning pre-trained language models. We will load models from the HuggingFace Model Hub https://huggingface.co/models and fine-tune them on a public dataset to solve a downstream NLP task using a small dataset and a few training steps.

Presenter: Reza Fazeli

Reza Fazeli is a conversational AI engineer for Watson Assistant, working closely with IBM Research teams to develop and deploy algorithms for improving our virtual assistant products. He is currently focused on leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for enhancing Watson Assistant by learning from the behavior of end users. He also works on other problems in this area such as intent detection, slot filling, disambiguation, and digression.

Previously, he has worked as a machine learning engineer and data scientist focusing on natural language processing and computer vision problems. Reza completed his graduate studies at University of Toronto where his research focused on using numerical modeling techniques for solving multi-phase flow problems.

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