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Sentence Transformers - Introduction #16

Closed Ankush-Chander closed 4 weeks ago

Ankush-Chander commented 2 months ago

Title

Introduction to Sentence Transformers

Describe your Talk

Sentence Transformers (a.k.a. SBERT) is the go-to Python module for accessing, using, and training state-of-the-art text and image embedding models. In this talk we will cover:

  1. BERT model
  2. How Sentence Transformer augment BERT to produce better embeddings
  3. Training and finetuning using Sentence Transformers

Pre-requisites & reading material

Time required for the talk

40 min + 10

Link to slides/demos

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About you

Ankush Chander is a Research Engineer with focus on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. He completed his Masters degree from DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India in 2016. Post that he co-founded RAx (now Enago Read) where he also worked as Research Engineer from 2016 to 2023. Previously he has worked as a Web Developer in MothersonSumi Infotech & Design Ltd. He is also an Open source enthusiast and has contributed to projects like Pytextrank, Argilla, kglab. In his free time, he writes Obsidian plugins. github: https://github.com/Ankush-Chander

Availability

27/07/2024

Any comments

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Ankush-Chander commented 1 month ago

Scheduled for 27th of July.

Ankush-Chander commented 4 weeks ago

Delivered in July meetup