# Course Launch Community Event

huggingface.co · Sylvain Gugger · Oct 26, 2021

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Hugging Face scheduled the release of Part 2 of its machine learning course for November 15th alongside a collaborative community event. While Part 1 covered text classification and Model Hub uploads, Part 2 expands into token classification, causal and masked language modeling, translation, summarization, question answering, and ecosystem tools like Datasets and Tokenizers. The event includes two days of technical talks from industry practitioners covering transfer learning, ethics in machine learning development, and workflows across Keras, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. Participants collaborate on team projects to fine-tune natural language processing models and develop interactive portfolio demos, with AWS supplying complimentary compute through Amazon SageMaker. Attendees who successfully complete and demonstrate a project receive a certificate of completion.

## Context

Hugging Face is releasing Part 2 of its course to cover common NLP tasks beyond text classification—such as token classification, language modeling, translation, summarization, and question answering—alongside deep dives into 🤗 Datasets and 🤗 Tokenizers.

## Approach / What changed

To accompany the course launch, Hugging Face organized a two-day community event featuring industry talks on transformer architectures, ethics, and training tools, alongside hands-on team projects where participants fine-tune NLP models and build live demos using sponsored Amazon SageMaker compute.

## Takeaways

- Part 2 of the Hugging Face Course expands beyond text classification to cover token classification, causal and masked language modeling, translation, summarization, and question answering.
- The community event pairs educational sessions on frameworks like PyTorch, Keras, and Accelerate with practical team projects focused on fine-tuning NLP models.
- AWS sponsors the community event by providing participants with free compute resources via Amazon SageMaker for model fine-tuning and demo development.

**Tags:** [AWS](https://yomu.fyi/topic/aws), [Machine Learning](https://yomu.fyi/topic/machine-learning), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source)

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