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Learning from Machine Learning

Lewis Tunstall: Hugging Face, SetFit and Reinforcement Learning | Learning from Machine Learning #6

Oct 3, 2023
Lewis Tunstall, machine learning engineer at Hugging Face and author of the best selling book Natural Language Processing with Transformers, talks about his journey from theoretical physics to machine learning, the benefits of the Hugging Face platform, exploring reinforcement learning and the TRL library, adapters in fine-tuning pre-trained transformers, the limitations of language models, and understanding biases in machine learning and the impact on society.
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Quick takeaways

  • Focusing on one domain in machine learning maximizes learning rate and provides a strong foundation for branching out later.
  • Contributing to open source projects accelerates learning and provides feedback from experienced maintainers.

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Discovering the Power of Machine Learning

The speaker recounts their first encounter with machine learning through a friend's code that outperformed physicists' work in classification, leading to their fascination with the field and eventual career change.

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