Demonstrates how to integrate transformer models from HuggingFace with spaCy for text classification tasks. Covers the evolution from word vectors to transformers, explains BERT and RoBERTa architectures, and provides a complete walkthrough of fine-tuning RoBERTa on the TREC dataset using spaCy's TextCategorizer component. Includes dataset preparation, configuration setup, training process, and inference examples for building production-ready NLP pipelines.

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IntroductionWhy Transformers?BERT and RoBERTaUse RoBERTa with SpaCyFinal Thoughts

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