Build a large language model (from scratch) / Sebastian Raschka.

Author/creator Raschka, Sebastian author.
Format Book
PublicationShelter Island, NY : Manning Publications Co., [2025]
Descriptionxx, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Understanding large language models -- Working with text data -- Coding attention mechanisms -- Implementing a GPT model from scratch to generate text -- Pretraining on unlabeled data -- Fine-tuning for classification -- Fine-tuning to follow instructions -- Introduction to PyTorch -- References and further reading -- Exercise solutions -- Adding bells and whistles to the training loop -- Parameter-efficient fine-tuning with LoRA.
Abstract 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!
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 289-299) index.
ISBN9781633437166 paperback
ISBN1633437167 paperback
ISBNelectronic book