Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) - Softcover

Raschka, Sebastian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1633437167 ISBN 13: 9781633437166

Verlag: Manning Publications, 2024

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Learn how to create, train, and tweak large language models (LLMs) by building one from the ground up!

In  Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) bestselling author Sebastian Raschka guides you step by step through creating your own LLM. Each stage is explained with clear text, diagrams, and examples. You'll go from the initial design and creation, to pretraining on a general corpus, and on to fine-tuning for specific tasks.

Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) teaches you how to:

• Plan and code all the parts of an LLM
• Prepare a dataset suitable for LLM training
• Fine-tune LLMs for text classification and with your own data
• Use human feedback to ensure your LLM follows instructions
• Load pretrained weights into an LLM

Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch) takes you inside the AI black box to tinker with the internal systems that power generative AI. As you work through each key stage of LLM creation, you'll develop an in-depth understanding of how LLMs work, their limitations, and their customization methods. Your LLM can be developed on an ordinary laptop, and used as your own personal assistant.

 

About the technology 

Physicist Richard P. Feynman reportedly said, “I don't understand anything I can't build.” Based on this same powerful principle, bestselling author Sebastian Raschka guides you step by step as you build a GPT-style LLM that you can run on your laptop. This is an engaging book that covers each stage of the process, from planning and coding to training and fine-tuning.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sebastian Raschka is a Staff Research Engineer at Lightning AI, where he works on LLM research and develops open-source software.

The technical editor on this book was David Caswell.

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From the back cover:

Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) is a practical and eminently-satisfying hands-on journey into the foundations of generative AI. Without relying on any existing LLM libraries, you'll code a base model, evolve it into a text classifier, and ultimately create a chatbot that can follow your conversational instructions. And you'll really understand it because you built it yourself!

About the reader: 

Readers need intermediate Python skills and some knowledge of machine learning. The LLM you create will run on any modern laptop and can optionally utilize GPUs.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Manning Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1633437167
• ISBN 13: 9781633437166
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Pearson Benelux BV; productsafety@pearson.com; ; Kabelweg 37; Amsterdam; 1014 BA; Niederlande