This book is fantastic。 Great resource for learning and finding blind spots in your knowledge。 The appendix is gold with tips and tricks on working with LLMs (like implementation of LoRa from scratch)。
Vishnu Valsalan,
Absolutely brilliant
Siddharth Saha,
Good in depth explanation, but needs an editor
Philippe,
Very good practical book on how to build and train a LLM。 Worth read。
Filip Karlo Došilović,
I cannot praise this book enough。 This one sets a new standard for in-depth, explanatory, technical books on complex topics。The author managed explain attention mechanism, Transformers, decoder-based LLMs, and the most important concepts that comprise the contemporary LLMs (self-supervised learning with next-token prediction, instruction and supervised based fine-tuning) in a single, few hundred page book, in an approachable language and code。Cant wait to go through it again (I bought the MEAP v I cannot praise this book enough。 This one sets a new standard for in-depth, explanatory, technical books on complex topics。The author managed explain attention mechanism, Transformers, decoder-based LLMs, and the most important concepts that comprise the contemporary LLMs (self-supervised learning with next-token prediction, instruction and supervised based fine-tuning) in a single, few hundred page book, in an approachable language and code。Cant wait to go through it again (I bought the MEAP version) once a physical copy arrives。 。。。more