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Learn How To Build Your Own GPT

Learn how to build a Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) from scratch using PyTorch.

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    Intermediate

  • Time to complete

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    2 hours

  • Prerequisites

    2 courses
    We suggest you complete the following courses before you get started with Learn How To Build Your Own GPT:
    • Intro to PyTorch and Neural Networks
    • Generating Text with PyTorch

About this course

Learn how to build your own GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) from scratch using PyTorch in this course. You will use PyTorch to construct a transformer, train it on a text corpus, and then use the trained transformer to generate new text.

Skills you'll gain

  • Understand the steps involved in building a GPT model

  • Train a transformer on text data to generate text

  • Tweak hyperparameters in a GPT model to achieve optimal performance

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Nitya Mandyam
Senior Curriculum Developer at Codecademy
Nitya is a Senior Curriculum Developer at Codecademy. Nitya has created courses and skill paths relating to machine learning/AI across the Data Science catalog such as Feature Engineering, ML Fundamentals, Intermediate ML, Recommender Systems, Building a ML Pipeline.
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