YUNOVA · Natural Language Processing · Module 9: Advanced transformers

Fine-tuning BERT for text classification

Notes for offline study · 3 November 2026

Fine-tuning BERT for text classification

Key points

  • A classification head is added on top of a pre-trained BERT model.
  • Text is tokenised into input IDs and attention masks before training.
  • Fine-tuning trains the whole model for a few epochs with a small learning rate.