
Transformer Models and Applications
Course Description
Transformer Models and Applications – Mastering Modern AI Architectures is an 8-week intensive program designed to make you proficient in the most powerful AI architectures powering today’s language, vision, and multi-modal applications. From the basics of self-attention to advanced use-cases like large language models and deployment strategies, you will get hands-on experience through multiple projects and a final capstone that builds your real-world AI portfolio.
What Will You Learn?
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Foundations of Transformer Architecture and why it outperforms RNNs and CNNs.
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How to use Hugging Face Transformers for quick model implementation and fine-tuning.
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Real-world NLP Applications like sentiment analysis, translation, and question answering.
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Implement Vision Transformers (ViT) for image classification and detection tasks.
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Explore Multimodal Transformers like CLIP, Gemini, and audio transformers like Whisper.
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Prompt Engineering techniques for Large Language Models (LLMs).
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Skills to Deploy Transformers on cloud platforms using ONNX and TorchServe.
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Tips for Optimizing models with quantization and pruning for production-ready systems.
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Complete a Capstone Project to build and deploy a full AI solution with Transformer models.
Course Curriculum
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Introduction to Transformer Models
- What are Transformers?
- Evolution from RNNs and CNNs to Transformers
- Why Transformers Revolutionized Deep Learning
- Key Concepts: Self-Attention, Positional Encoding, Multi-head Attention
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Deep Dive into Transformer Architecture
- Encoder-Decoder Structure
- Layer Normalization, Residual Connections
- BERT, GPT, T5, RoBERTa – Architectural Variations
- Vision Transformers (ViT) vs Language Transformers
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Working with Hugging Face Transformers
- Introduction to Hugging Face Ecosystem
- Tokenizers, Pipelines, and Pretrained Models
- Fine-Tuning Transformers on Custom Datasets
- Transformers with PyTorch & TensorFlow
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Natural Language Processing Applications
- Text Classification, Sentiment Analysis
- Named Entity Recognition
- Question Answering Systems
- Machine Translation
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Vision Applications of Transformers
- Image Classification using ViT
- Object Detection with DETR
- Comparison with CNN-Based Models
- Building End-to-End Vision Pipelines
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Advanced Applications & Multi-Modal Transformers
- Prompt Engineering for LLMs
- Transformers in Audio & Speech (Whisper)
- Cross-modal Transformers: CLIP, Flamingo, Gemini
- Intro to Large Language Models (LLMs)
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Deployment & Optimization
- Model Quantization & Pruning
- Deploying on AWS/GCP using ONNX & TorchServe
- Building Scalable Transformer APIs
- Cost-Effective Inference Tips
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pstone Project & Certification
- Pick a domain: NLP / Vision / Multimodal
- Real-World Use Case: Build & Deploy a Transformer-Based Solution
- GitHub Portfolio Submission
- Final Quiz & Project Evaluation

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