Essentials of Large Language Models: A Beginner’s Journey

In this LLM course, learn the fundamentals, fine-tuning, and evaluation, and explore its architecture and evolution. Discover GPT-2, compare models, and uncover use cases.

Beginner

15 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

In this LLM course, learn the fundamentals, fine-tuning, and evaluation, and explore its architecture and evolution. Discover GPT-2, compare models, and uncover use cases.

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Course Overview

In this course, you will acquire a working knowledge of the capabilities and types of LLMs, along with their importance and limitations in various applications. You will gain valuable hands-on experience by fine-tuning LLMs to specific datasets and evaluating their performance. You will start with an introduction to large language models, looking at components, capabilities, and their types. Next, you will be introduced to GPT-2 as an example of a large language model. Then, you will learn how to fine-tun...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Generative Ai

Large Language Models (llms)

What You'll Learn

An understanding of language models, large language models, and their key differences

Familiarity with the components of LLMs and their basic architecture

Working knowledge of the types of LLMs, along with their importance and limitations

An understanding of GPT-2 as a large language model

Hands-on experience fine-tuning LLMs to specific datasets and evaluating their performance

What You'll Learn

An understanding of language models, large language models, and their key differences

Course Content

Course Overview

Get familiar with large language models, their applications, and ethical considerations in AI.

Introduction to the Course

Getting Started with LLMs

Learn about advanced LLM fundamentals, components, types, capabilities, examples, and limitations.

Large Language Models The Transformer Architecture Evolution of LLMs Capabilities of LLMs Example LLM: GPT-2 Exploring Use Cases of LLMs Importance and Limitations

Fine-Tuning LLMs

Examine fine-tuning LLMs, model selection, data preparation, training, evaluation, and performance comparison.

Introduction to Fine-Tuning Model Selection Data Preparation Training Evaluation Challenge: Compare the Performance of Two Different LLMs

Wrap Up

Learn about applying language models creatively and responsibly to impact AI.

Conclusion

Exploring OpenAI API

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