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  • NL SEMINAR -An introduction to transfer learning in NLP and HuggingFace

    Thu, Dec 10, 2020 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Information Sciences Institute

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    Speaker: Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face

    Talk Title: An introduction to transfer learning in NLP and HuggingFace

    Series: NL Seminar

    Abstract: In this talk I'll start by introducing the recent breakthroughs in NLP that resulted from the combination of Transfer Learning schemes and Transformer architectures. The second part of the talk will be dedicated to an introduction of the open-source tools released by HuggingFace, in particular our Transformers, Tokenizers and Datasets libraries and our models.


    Biography: Thomas Wolf is co founder and Chief Science Officer of HuggingFace. His team is on a mission to catalyze and democratize NLP research. Prior to HuggingFace, Thomas gained a Ph.D. in physics, and later a law degree. He worked as a physics researcher and a European Patent Attorney.


    Host: Jon May and Mozhdeh Gheini

    More Info: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/

    Webcast: https://youtu.be/sKfRlPD8DhU

    Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Virtual Only

    WebCast Link: https://youtu.be/sKfRlPD8DhU

    Audiences: NL Seminar

    Contact: Petet Zamar

    Event Link: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/


    This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.


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