Mini Project: Sentiment Analysis — IMDB with BiLSTM + BERT Comparison

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSequenceClassification, Trainer, TrainingArguments
from datasets import load_dataset
import numpy as np

device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")

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# APPROACH 1: DistilBERT Fine-tuning (recommended)
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model_name = "distilbert-base-uncased"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)

# Load IMDB from HuggingFace Datasets (50K reviews, balanced pos/neg)
dataset = load_dataset("imdb")
train_ds = dataset["train"]  # 25,000 reviews
test_ds  = dataset["test"]   # 25,000 reviews

def tokenize(batch):
    return tokenizer(batch["text"], truncation=True, max_length=512, padding="max_length")

tokenized_train = train_ds.map(tokenize, batched=True, batch_size=512)
tokenized_test  = test_ds.map(tokenize,  batched=True, batch_size=512)
tokenized_train.set_format("torch", columns=["input_ids", "attention_mask", "label"])
tokenized_test.set_format("torch",  columns=["input_ids", "attention_mask", "label"])

# Model
model_bert = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(model_name, num_labels=2)

# HuggingFace Trainer — handles training loop for you
def compute_metrics(eval_pred):
    logits, labels = eval_pred
    predictions = np.argmax(logits, axis=-1)
    accuracy = (predictions == labels).mean()
    return {"accuracy": accuracy}

training_args = TrainingArguments(
    output_dir="./results/imdb-distilbert",
    num_train_epochs=3,
    per_device_train_batch_size=32,
    per_device_eval_batch_size=64,
    learning_rate=2e-5,
    weight_decay=0.01,
    evaluation_strategy="epoch",
    save_strategy="best",
    load_best_model_at_end=True,
    fp16=torch.cuda.is_available(),   # AMP
    logging_steps=100,
)

trainer = Trainer(
    model=model_bert,
    args=training_args,
    train_dataset=tokenized_train,
    eval_dataset=tokenized_test,
    compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
)
trainer.train()
results = trainer.evaluate()
print(f"\nDistilBERT IMDB accuracy: {results['eval_accuracy']:.2%}")
# Expected: ~93-94%

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# APPROACH 2: BiLSTM from scratch for comparison
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class BiLSTMClassifier(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, vocab_size=30000, embed_dim=256, hidden=128, dropout=0.4):
        super().__init__()
        self.emb  = nn.Embedding(vocab_size, embed_dim, padding_idx=0)
        self.lstm = nn.LSTM(embed_dim, hidden, 2, batch_first=True, dropout=dropout, bidirectional=True)
        self.fc   = nn.Linear(hidden * 2, 2)
        self.drop = nn.Dropout(dropout)

    def forward(self, x, mask):
        e = self.drop(self.emb(x))
        o, _ = self.lstm(e)
        o = o * mask.unsqueeze(-1).float()
        pooled = o.max(1).values
        return self.fc(self.drop(pooled))

# Expected BiLSTM accuracy: ~85-88% — Transformers win by 6-8 points
print("\nComparison Summary:")
print("  BiLSTM (scratch, GloVe init): ~85-88% accuracy")
print("  DistilBERT (fine-tuned):       ~93-94% accuracy")
print("  BERT-Large (fine-tuned):       ~95-96% accuracy")
print("  Key advantage: Transformers see FULL context simultaneously")
print("  BiLSTM advantage: 20x fewer parameters, faster inference")