HackAI: Fine-tuning language models as research tools

An interactive workshop to learn how to fine-tune language models for research purposes.

This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the principles of fine-tuning language models. This includes the curation of training and testing data, evaluation of model performance and will show participants how to make their own text classifier.

Attendees will be sent a set of learning materials covering the following topics:

• Cleaning and preparing datasets for training purposes
• The importance of the train-test split
• Fine-tuning an existing model in Google Colab
• Practical advice for evaluating a trained model

For questions about this event, please contact idsai-ecrn-committee@exeter.ac.uk.

This activity is part of an ECRN Enhancement Award that has been funded by the University of Exeter Researcher Development and Research Culture team.