Build a Large Language Model from scratch!
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Build a Large Language Model from scratch! This repository contains the code examples for developing, pretraining, and finetuning a LLM from scratch. It is the official codebase for the book Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch). Notebook examples are included for each chapter: Chapter 1: Understanding Large Language Models Chapter 2: Working with Text Data Chapter 3: Coding Attention Mechanisms Chapter 4: Implementing a GPT Model from Scratch Chapter 5: Pretraining on Unlabeled Data Chapter 6: Finetuning for Text Classification Chapter 7: Finetuning to Follow Instructions Link to t
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