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Fine-tuning, Check!
Fine-tuning, Check!
That was comprehensive! In the first two chapters you learned about models and tokenizers, and now you know how to fine-tune them for your own data using modern best practices. To recap, in this chapter you:
- Learned about datasets on the Hub and modern data processing techniques
- Learned how to load and preprocess datasets efficiently, including using dynamic padding and data collators
- Implemented fine-tuning and evaluation using the high-level
TrainerAPI with the latest features - Implemented a complete custom training loop from scratch with PyTorch
- Used 🤗 Accelerate to make your training code work seamlessly on multiple GPUs or TPUs
- Applied modern optimization techniques like mixed precision training and gradient accumulation
🎉 Congratulations! You’ve mastered the fundamentals of fine-tuning transformer models. You’re now ready to tackle real-world ML projects!
📖 Continue Learning: Explore these resources to deepen your knowledge:
- 🤗 Transformers task guides for specific NLP tasks
- 🤗 Transformers examples for comprehensive notebooks
🚀 Next Steps:
- Try fine-tuning on your own dataset using the techniques you’ve learned
- Experiment with different model architectures available on the Hugging Face Hub
- Join the Hugging Face community to share your projects and get help
This is just the beginning of your journey with 🤗 Transformers. In the next chapter, we’ll explore how to share your models and tokenizers with the community and contribute to the ever-growing ecosystem of pretrained models.
The skills you’ve developed here - data preprocessing, training configuration, evaluation, and optimization - are fundamental to any machine learning project. Whether you’re working on text classification, named entity recognition, question answering, or any other NLP task, these techniques will serve you well.
💡 Pro Tips for Success:
- Always start with a strong baseline using the
TrainerAPI before implementing custom training loops - Use the 🤗 Hub to find pretrained models that are close to your task for better starting points
- Monitor your training with proper evaluation metrics and don’t forget to save checkpoints
- Leverage the community - share your models and datasets to help others and get feedback on your work