distilbert-base-uncased-MC-News

This model is a fine-tuned version of distilbert-base-uncased. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:

• Loss: 0.0965
• Accuracy: 0.9643
• F1 Score: 0.9640

Model description

This is a multiclass classification model of news articles.

For more information on how it was created, check out the following link: https://github.com/DunnBC22/NLP_Projects/blob/main/Multiclass%20Classification/Multiclass_Classification%20of%20News%20Articles-CNN%20News.ipynb

Intended uses & limitations

This model is intended to demonstrate my ability to solve a complex problem using technology.

Training and evaluation data

Dataset Source: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/hadasu92/cnn-articles-after-basic-cleaning

Training procedure

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

• learning_rate: 2e-05
• train_batch_size: 64
• eval_batch_size: 64
• seed: 42
• optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
• lr_scheduler_type: linear
• num_epochs: 4

Training results

Training Loss	Epoch	Step	Validation Loss	Accuracy	F1 Score
0.2026	1.0	525	0.0887	0.9571	0.9569
0.0641	2.0	1050	0.0823	0.9612	0.9608
0.0383	3.0	1575	0.0890	0.9621	0.9625
0.0242	4.0	2100	0.0965	0.9643	0.9640

Framework versions

• Transformers 4.21.3
• Pytorch 1.12.1
• Datasets 2.4.0
• Tokenizers 0.12.1