model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('bert-base')embeddings = encoder(text).detach()loss = criterion(logits, targets)optimizer.zero_grad()loss.backward()optimizer.step()with torch.no_grad(): preds = model(x).argmax(dim=-1)rag_chain.invoke({ 'query': prompt })vector_store.similarity_search(q, k=4)tokens = tokenizer.encode(prompt)stream = client.chat.completions.create( model='gpt-4o-mini', messages=history, stream=True,)agent.run(task, tools=[search, sql])metrics.log({ 'precision': p, 'recall': r })if confidence > 0.92: route_to_human()kfp.compile(pipeline, package_path='./out')trainer.fit(model, datamodule)wandb.log({ 'val/loss': val_loss })schedule = CosineAnnealingLR(opt, T_max=50)dataset = load_dataset('imdb', split='train')deploy(model, env='prod', region='ap-south-1')model = AutoModel.from_pretrained('bert-base')embeddings = encoder(text).detach()loss = criterion(logits, targets)optimizer.zero_grad()loss.backward()optimizer.step()with torch.no_grad(): preds = model(x).argmax(dim=-1)rag_chain.invoke({ 'query': prompt })vector_store.similarity_search(q, k=4)tokens = tokenizer.encode(prompt)stream = client.chat.completions.create( model='gpt-4o-mini', messages=history, stream=True,)agent.run(task, tools=[search, sql])metrics.log({ 'precision': p, 'recall': r })if confidence > 0.92: route_to_human()kfp.compile(pipeline, package_path='./out')trainer.fit(model, datamodule)wandb.log({ 'val/loss': val_loss })schedule = CosineAnnealingLR(opt, T_max=50)dataset = load_dataset('imdb', split='train')deploy(model, env='prod', region='ap-south-1')

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