# 🧠 BERT-based 4-Class News Classifier A fine-tuned [BERT-base-uncased](https://huggingface.co/bert-base-uncased) model for classifying news articles into four categories: **World**, **Sport**, **Business**, and **Science & Technology**. ## 📖 Model Overview This model adapts BERT for multi-class sequence classification. It was trained on a labeled news dataset with four categories and achieves strong performance on short text snippets such as news headlines or article summaries. | Label ID | Category | |-----------|-----------| | 0 | World | | 1 | Sport | | 2 | Business | | 3 | Science & Technology | ## ⚙️ Training Details - **Base model:** `bert-base-uncased` - **Task:** Sequence classification (4 classes) - **Training environment:** Google Colab (T4 GPU) - **Max sequence length:** 200 - **Batch size:** 8 - **Epochs:** 3 - **Optimizer:** AdamW (lr=2e-5) - **Framework:** PyTorch + 🤗 Transformers Trainer API The dataset was tokenized using `AutoTokenizer` with truncation and dynamic padding enabled. Model and tokenizer were saved using `save_pretrained()` and uploaded to the Hugging Face Hub. ## 🧩 Usage You can load and use the model directly with the 🤗 Transformers library: ```python from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSequenceClassification import torch # Load model from the Hub model_name = "zacanadir/wsbt-sequence-classifier" tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name) model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(model_name) MAX_LENGTH = 200 def predict_text(text_list): encodings = tokenizer( text_list, padding=True, truncation=True, max_length=MAX_LENGTH, return_tensors="pt" ).to(model.device) model.eval() with torch.no_grad(): outputs = model(**encodings) preds = torch.argmax(outputs.logits, dim=-1) return preds.tolist() # Example sample_texts = [ "Nvidia becomes the first chipmaker to top $5 trillion in market value.", "The Raja of Casablanca advances to the semi final of the African Champions' League." ] label_to_category = { 0: "World", 1: "Sport", 2: "Business", 3: "Science & Technology" } preds = predict_text(sample_texts) predicted_categories = [label_to_category[int(i)] for i in preds] print(predicted_categories) 🧾 Output Example ['Business', 'Sport'] 🚀 How to Reuse / Fine-tune Further If you’d like to fine-tune this model on your own dataset: from transformers import Trainer, TrainingArguments, AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSequenceClassification from datasets import load_dataset tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("zacanadir/wsbt-sequence-classifier") model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("zacanadir/wsbt-sequence-classifier", num_labels=4) # Load your dataset and fine-tune 📦 Files Included File Description config.json Model architecture & label mapping pytorch_model.bin Trained weights tokenizer.json, vocab.txt, special_tokens_map.json Tokenizer files training_args.bin Trainer configuration (epochs, LR, etc.) ✨ Acknowledgements Hugging Face Transformers Google Colab for free GPU training PyTorch Trained and deployed with ❤️ using Hugging Face and Google Colab.
# 🧠 BERT-based 4-Class News Classifier
A fine-tuned [BERT-base-uncased](https://huggingface.co/bert-base-uncased) model for classifying news articles into four categories: **World**, **Sport**, **Business**, and **Science & Technology**.
## 📖 Model Overview
This model adapts BERT for multi-class sequence classification.
It was trained on a labeled news dataset with four categories and achieves strong performance on short text snippets such as news headlines or article summaries.
| Label ID | Category |
|-----------|-----------|
| 0 | World |
| 1 | Sport |
| 2 | Business |
| 3 | Science & Technology |
## ⚙️ Training Details
- **Base model:** `bert-base-uncased`
- **Task:** Sequence classification (4 classes)
- **Training environment:** Google Colab (T4 GPU)
- **Max sequence length:** 200
- **Batch size:** 8
- **Epochs:** 3
- **Optimizer:** AdamW (lr=2e-5)
- **Framework:** PyTorch + 🤗 Transformers Trainer API
The dataset was tokenized using `AutoTokenizer` wit…
