JH
Oct 5, 2020
Can the instructors make maybe a video explaining the ungraded lab? That will be useful. Other students find it difficult to understand both LSH attention layer ungraded lab. Thanks
SB
Nov 21, 2020
The course is a very comprehensive one and covers all state-of-the-art techniques used in NLP. It's quite an advanced level course and a good python coding skill is a must.
By Keith B
鈥Aug 4, 2022
I don't think I got much from the lectures or the assignments in the last two weeks of the course (weeks 3 and 4). However, the ungraded labs in week 4 (Reformer LSH and Revnet) were brilliant and really helped me to better understand much of the material from weeks 3 and 4. If I were doing it again, I would probably skip the lectures and just do those labs.
By Amey N
鈥Oct 4, 2020
The course gives an encompassing overview of the latest tools and technologies which are driving the NLP domain. Thus, the focus gradually shifts from implementation and towards design.
Since the models require specialized equipment, they go beyond the scope of a personal computer and create a requirement for high-performance computing.
By Audrey B
鈥Jan 4, 2022
Great content, although the focus is definitely more on the attention mechanisms and on the Transformer architecture than on the applications themselves. Still really enjoyed it and I now feel like I have a better grasp of Transfer Learning and its associated methods. Content is very clear and well explained
By Ankit K S
鈥Nov 30, 2020
This is really an interesting specialization with lots of things to learn in the domain of NLP ranging from basic to advanced concepts. It covers the state of the art Transformer architecture in great detail. The only thing with which I felt uncomfortable is the use of Trax Library in assignments.
By Vijay A
鈥Nov 21, 2020
Covers the state of the art in NLP! We get an overview and a basic understanding of designing and using attention models. Each week deserves to be a course in itself - could have actually designed a specialization on the attention based models so that we get to learn and understand better.
By Alexandre B
鈥May 21, 2023
This course is quite complete as it presents major hot NLP tasks with transformers, but unfortunately it presents only one framework: Trax, and not Hugging Face's which is also really useful and used in the field. I would have liked to have a lesson about chatGPT like models.
By Naman B
鈥Apr 29, 2021
It would have been better if we use standard frameworks like PyTorch instead of Trax. Also, the Course Videos are a bit confusing at times. It would have been great if the Math part would have been taught as Andrew Ng Taught in Deep Learning Course.
By Tom W
鈥Oct 9, 2024
A good introduction to the transformer model. Some of the exercises felt a bit more lead (more code written by the instructor) than earlier courses - this may be to do with the volume of material necessary to cover transformers.
By Cees R
鈥Nov 30, 2020
Not new to NLP, I enjoyed this course and learned things I didn't know before. From an educational perspective, I didn't like that the two "optional" exercises were way harder than the too easy "fill in x here" assignment.
By Zicong M
鈥Dec 14, 2020
Overall good quality, but seems a bit short and content are squeezed.
I don't like the push of Trax neither, it is has yet become the mainstream and personally I don't find that helpful for my professional career.
By Jonas B
鈥Apr 11, 2023
A good course, that I can recomment without a doubt. I would strongly recomment to complement it by reading the additional ressources (see week 4 -> "References") as well as hugging face tutorial for NLP.
By Gonzalo A M
鈥Jan 22, 2021
I think that we could go deeper in the last course because you taught a lot of complex concepts but I did not feel confidence to replicate them. It was better to explain transformers with more detail
By Cornel M
鈥Jun 19, 2023
The lectures need more insights to understand not only the 'how' but a reasonable amount of the 'why', too. Andrew is very good at doing this in his lectures and provide his intuitions and insights.
By Vishwam G
鈥Mar 10, 2024
It could have been better if Transformers library from hugging face is explored more. and topics like Vision Transformers and utilization of Transformers for computer vision is explored.
By CLAUDIA R R
鈥Sep 8, 2021
It's a great course, more difficult than I thought but very well structured and explained. Although more didactic free videos can complete the lessons from others websites.
By Anonymous T
鈥Oct 16, 2020
great course content but go for this only if you have done previous courses and have some background knowledge otherwise you won't be able to relate
By Qiao D
鈥Nov 4, 2022
The content is great, but it will be even better if we have a more in-depth understanding of the knowledge rather than a very quick crash course.
By Moustafa S
鈥Oct 3, 2020
good course covers everything i guess, the only down side for me is trax portion, i would've prefered if it was on TF maybe, but still great job
By Mohan N
鈥Mar 28, 2021
The course covers cutting edge content and the exercises are well paced. Found the transformer lessons a bit difficult to understand.
By Rahul J
鈥Sep 30, 2020
Not up to expectations. Needs more explanation on some topics. Some were difficult to understand, examples might have helped!!
By veera s
鈥Mar 18, 2022
need more detailed explanation in the last course of this specialization, especially Attention and BERT models.
By Chip G
鈥Nov 8, 2024
This is the toughest AI course I have taken. I hope your Python coding skills are better than mine.
By Vaseekaran V
鈥Sep 20, 2021
It's a really good course to learn and get introduced on the attention models in NLP.
By David M
鈥Oct 26, 2020
An amazing experience throughout the state-of-art NLP models
By Roger K
鈥May 18, 2022
Labs required a bit more context, to understand.