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Language & Machines
NLP and Transformers
- Saturday, 7 November 2026
- 9:30 am – 4:30 pm IST
- Main Seminar Hall, Block A, College of Engineering Kidangoor
Trace the path from bag-of-words to embeddings to the transformer. You'll visualise attention, fine-tune a small transformer for sentiment analysis on Malayalam–English code-mixed text, and understand why 'Attention Is All You Need' changed everything.
You'll be able to…
- Tokenise text and build word embeddings
- Explain self-attention with a whiteboard sketch
- Fine-tune a Hugging Face transformer
- Evaluate an NLP model honestly
Prerequisites
- Step 05 recommended
- PyTorch basics
What to bring
- Laptop (8 GB RAM recommended) and charger
- Python 3.11+ installed
- A Google account for Colab
- Curiosity — plenty of it
Agenda
- 09:30Check-in & coffeeGrab your badge, find a seat, connect to Wi-Fi.
- 10:00From words to vectors to attention
- 11:30Short break
- 11:45Guided walkthroughLive coding with the speaker — follow along on your laptop.
- 13:00Lunch
- 14:00Code-mixed sentiment fine-tuning sprintWork in pairs. Mentors float between tables.
- 16:00Show & tellThree teams demo what they built.
- 16:30Wrap-up & next step preview
Speaker
Anjali Nair
Senior ML Engineer, Nimbus Labs, Bengaluru
Anjali builds language models for Indic languages and has shipped NLP systems used by millions. A CEK alumna, she started her AI journey in this very seminar hall.
Venue
Main Seminar Hall, Block A, College of Engineering Kidangoor
Kidangoor South P.O., Kottayam, Kerala 686583, India