agnews-transformer-encoder

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• accuracy pipeline_tag: text-classification

Transformer Encoder for AG News

Overview

This repository contains a custom Transformer Encoder trained from scratch on the AG News dataset.
The model achieves 91.7% validation accuracy after 13 epochs with the following configuration:

• vocab size: 30,000
• embedding dim (d_model): 256
• heads: 8
• layers: 4
• feedforward dim: 512
• max seq length: 256

Dataset

• AG News (news classification)
• 4 categories: World, Sports, Business, Sci/Tech

Training

• Optimizer: AdamW (lr=3e-4, weight decay=1e-5)
• Batch size: 32
• Epochs: 15
• Hardware: Google Colab GPU T4

Results

• Train Accuracy: 92.1%
• Validation Accuracy: 91.7%

Files

• agnews_encoder.pt → trained model weights
• config.json → model config
• vocab.json → tokenizer vocab
• train_notebook.ipynb → training code

Source Code

• https://github.com/m4vic/Transformer-101/blob/main/Encoder/encoder01.ipynb