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Text Classification: From CNNs to Transformers

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Text Classification: From CNNs to Transformers

Module: Natural Language Processing | Difficulty: Advanced

TextCNN (Kim, 2014)

Filters of different sizes capture n-gram patterns.

Hierarchical Attention

BERT for Classification

Multi-Task Classification

import torch
import torch.nn as nn

class TextCNN(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, vocab_size, embed_dim=300, num_filters=100, filter_sizes=[3,4,5]):
        super().__init__()
        self.embedding = nn.Embedding(vocab_size, embed_dim)
        self.convs = nn.ModuleList([
            nn.Conv1d(embed_dim, num_filters, fs) for fs in filter_sizes
        ])
        self.fc = nn.Linear(num_filters * len(filter_sizes), 1)
    def forward(self, x):
        emb = self.embedding(x).permute(0, 2, 1)
        conv_outs = [torch.relu(conv(emb)).max(dim=2)[0] for conv in self.convs]
        out = torch.cat(conv_outs, dim=1)
        return self.fc(out)

Research Insight: TextCNN remains competitive with transformers for short text classification because n-gram filters capture local patterns effectively. The key advantage is computational efficiency — TextCNN is 10-100x faster than BERT.

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