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PolyU COMP5511 • Lab 9

Intro to Modern Mini-LLMs (Qwen, Hugging Face, Inference)

From Image AI to Language AI

  • In earlier weeks, we trained models to recognize images.
  • This week, we study models that generate text.
  • Instead of answering “What digit is this?”, the model answers “What token should come next?”
  • This is our first step into Natural Language Processing (NLP).
A conceptual, minimalist illustration showing the transition from computer vision to natural language processing. On the left, an abstract glowing eye analyzing a handwritten digit or image. An arrow points to the right side, which shows glowing text tokens or a speech bubble generating text piece by piece. Clean, academic layout, soft pastel and accent red color tones.
Transitioning from Computer Vision to NLP
Open Colab Notebook
Session
Lab 9
Date
2026-03-16
Instructor
Ran Cheng
Duration
60 Mins
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University