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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Generative AI Language Modeling with Transformers by IBM

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    About the Course

    This course provides you with an overview of how to use transformer-based models for natural language processing (NLP). In this course, you
    will learn to apply transformer-based models for text classification, focusing on the encoder component. You’ll learn about positional encoding,
    word embedding, and attention mechanisms in language transformers and their role in capturing contextual information and dependencies.
    Additionally, you will be introduced to multi-head attention and gain insights on decoder-based language modeling with generative pre-trained
    transformers (GPT) for language translation, training the models, and implementing them in PyTorch. Further, you’ll explore ...
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    LW

    Nov 10, 2024

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    Get more familiar with transformer and its application in language

    AB

    Dec 30, 2024

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    This course gives me a wide picture of what transformers can be.

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    Oct 11, 2024

    Once again, great content and not that great documentation (printable cheatsheets, no slides, etc). Documentation is essential to review a course content in the future. Alas!

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    Feb 3, 2025

    The narration is poor. Instead of an expert lecturer, a narrator reads the text without understanding its meaning. Many fundamental terms are left unexplained.

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    Oct 22, 2024

    It is an excellent specialisation, except the pace of the speaker is very fast. It is difficult to understand, and it sounds very artificial.

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    By vikky b

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    Nov 17, 2024

    need assistance from humans, which seems lacking though a coach can give guidance but not to the extent of human touch.

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    By XUETING W

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    Dec 2, 2024

    Good content but I truly cannot understand...

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    By Alexandre T

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    Feb 22, 2025

    Fantastic class but it takes WAY MORE TIME than what is reported, unless you just don't do the labs or casually read them high level. Going in-depth in the labs and doing the necessary work to understand all key concepts, and codes, will take you easily 3-4x more times depending on your current level of expertise. Example: a lab of 30 minutes has a length of 15 A4 pages when you print it. Now imagine all these pages contain key notions & codes. Superb class, but required time is highly underestimated (like most of the IBM Generative AI Engineering certification).

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    By Makhlouf M

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    Apr 7, 2025

    Great course! Clear explanations, solid structure, and just the right mix of theory and hands-on content. Thanks to Dr. Joseph Santarcangelo, Fateme Akbari, and Kang Wang for making complex concepts so accessible. Really enjoyed it and learned a lot about transformers and GenAI!

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    By LO W

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    Nov 10, 2024

    Get more familiar with transformer and its application in language

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    By Ana A B

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    Dec 30, 2024

    This course gives me a wide picture of what transformers can be.

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    By Muhammad A

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    Jan 18, 2025

    Exceptional course and all the labs are industry related

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    By 329_SUDIP C

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    Dec 2, 2024

    Nice Course

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    By Purva T

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    Jul 26, 2024

    good.

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    By Francesco D G

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    Dec 15, 2024

    Maybe a little chaotics. Slides should be available.

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    By Mykola K

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    Apr 23, 2025

    The course is interesting and challenging. The lab assignments should be divided into more parts. There's too much code to grasp in a single lab session, making it difficult to follow the task. A major drawback is the extremely long training time of the model in the lab work. For example, BERT took over an hour to train. During that time, it's easy to lose interest in continuing the course. Either the model needs to be simplified to train faster, or the performance of the environment running the Jupyter Notebook should be significantly improved.

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    By Mohammad D

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    Mar 26, 2025

    It's one of the worst courses I've seen. I couldn't understand anything from their explanation and I had to resort to external resources to understand the topic (and I am already someone with ML background).

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