If you’d like to spend a few hours this weekend to dive into Large Language Models (LLMs) and understand how they work, I’ve prepared a 3-hour coding workshop presentation on implementing, training, and using LLMs.
Below, you’ll find a table of contents to get an idea of what this video covers (the video itself has clickable chapter marks, allowing you to jump directly to topics of interest):
0:00 – Workshop overview
2:17 – Part 1: Intro to LLMs
9:14 – Workshop materials
10:48 – Part 2: Understanding LLM input data
23:25 – A simple tokenizer class
41:03 – Part 3: Coding an LLM architecture
45:01 – GPT-2 and Llama 2
1:07:11 – Part 4: Pretraining
1:29:37 – Part 5.1: Loading pretrained weights
1:45:12 – Part 5.2: Pretrained weights via LitGPT
1:53:09 – Part 6.1: Instruction finetuning
2:08:21 – Part 6.2: Instruction finetuning via LitGPT
02:26:45 – Part 6.3: Benchmark evaluation
02:36:55 – Part 6.4: Evaluating conversational performance
02:42:40 – Conclusion
It’s a slight departure from my usual text-based content, but the last time I did this a few months ago, it was so well-received that I thought it might be nice to do another one!
Happy viewing!
References
Build an LLM from Scratch book
Build an LLM from Scratch GitHub repository
GitHub repository with workshop code
Lightning Studio for this workshop
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