Large Language Models

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This course offers an in-depth exploration of large language models (LLMs). LLM has revolutionized natural language processing and even the field of artificial intelligence. This course will introduce LLMs from their foundations to practical applications, covering topics such as model architecture, system design, and various training methodologies including pre-training, fine-tuning, and instruction tuning. This course is highly research-oriented and designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in computer science for research purposes. Prereq: CSDS 340 or CSDS 440 .