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Refined Are you tired of spending hours fine-tuning your pre-trained models only to see minimal improvements?

To set the stage: what is NAS? It’s essentially an automated process that helps you find the best possible architecture for your model by searching through a large space of candidate architectures using various optimization algorithms. This means less time spent tweaking hyperparameters, and more time spent on other important tasks like drinking coffee or binge-watching Netflix shows.

Now BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers). If you havent heard of it by now, where have you been? It’s a pre-trained language model that has shown state-of-the-art results in various NLP tasks. But what if we could fine-tune BERT for text classification using NAS?

That’s exactly what we did! We used Amazon SageMaker Studio to create an end-to-end workflow for training and deploying a customized version of BERT for text classification on the Amazon Reviews Polarity dataset. And let me tell you, it was a breeze thanks to the new Hugging Face DLCs (Deep Learning Containers) that are fully integrated with SageMaker’s distributed training libraries.

First, we downloaded and preprocessed the data using the datasets library from Hugging Face. Then, we defined our hyperparameters for fine-tuning BERT in a Hugging Face Estimator. We set the number of epochs to 3, batch size to 16, model name to distilbert-base-uncased, and tokenizer name to bert-tokenizer.

Next, we started our training job using SageMaker’s fit function. Our customized version of BERT was ready for inference. We used the Hugging Face Inference Toolkit for SageMaker to deploy our model as a managed inference endpoint on SageMaker.

Now let me tell you about some of the cool features that come with this toolkit. First, it utilizes MMS (Multi Model Server) for serving ML models, which is an open-source framework for serving deep learning models trained using any ML/DL framework. It’s highly customizable and allows us to fine-tune important performance parameters like the number of Netty threads or response timeout.

Secondly, we can override the default methods provided by HuggingFaceHandlerService if needed. For example, we could provide our own input_fun(), output_fn(), predict_fn(), model_fn() or transform_fn(). This gives us complete control over how inference is performed and allows for more flexibility when dealing with complex data pipelines.

So next time you find yourself struggling to improve your pre-trained models, remember: NAS is here to save the day!