
Let’s Build GPT from Scratch for Text Generator
Last Updated on September 18, 2024 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Asad iqbal
Originally published on Towards AI.
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We will use KerasNLP to build a scaled-down Generative Pre-Trained (GPT) model in this example. GPT is a Transformer-based model that allows you to generate sophisticated text from a prompt.
We will train the model on the simplebooks-92 corpus, a dataset made from several novels. It is a good dataset for this example because it has a small vocabulary and high word frequency, which is beneficial when training a model with few parameters.
◆ Introduction◆ Setup◆ Settings & hyperparameters◆ Load the data◆ Train the tokenizer◆ Load tokenizer◆ Tokenize data◆ Build the model◆ Training◆ Inference -> Greedy search -> Beam search -> Random search◆ Conclusion
Source: The code used in this article is from Keras official website
Note: If you are running this example on a Colab, make sure to enable GPU runtime for faster training.
The command !pip install -q –upgrade keras-nlp installs and upgrades the keras-nlp package. The -q flag ensures the installation process is quiet (minimal output), and –upgrade provides the latest version of the package is installed.
The command !pip install -q –upgrade keras upgrades the keras package to the latest version.
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