Tag: Large Language Models

LLMs from Scratch #003: Modern Transformer Architectures: A Deep Dive into Design Principles and Training

23.11.2025

Modern Transformer Architectures: A Deep Dive into Design Principles and Training 🎯 What You’ll Learn In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the evolution of transformer architectures from the original “Attention is All You Need” paper to modern implementations. You’ll discover why today’s language models use specific design choices like RoPE position embeddings and SwiGLU activations, understand the trade-offs between serial and parallel layer arrangements, and learn how to make informed decisions about hyperparameters like head…
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LLMs from Scratch #002 PyTorch Fundamentals: Building Efficient Language Models from Scratch

22.11.2025

PyTorch Fundamentals: Building Efficient Language Models from Scratch 🎯 What You’ll Learn In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the fundamental building blocks of PyTorch for language model development. You’ll learn how to account for memory usage across different floating-point representations, understand tensor operations and their computational costs, master efficient data movement between CPU and GPU, and develop the mindset of resource accounting that’s essential for training large-scale models. This is the practical foundation you need…
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LLMs Scratch #001 Introduction to LLMs and tokenization

22.11.2025

Introduction to Large Language Models: From Scratch (Part 1) 🎯 What You’ll Learn In this comprehensive introduction to large language models, we’ll explore why efficiency at scale is just as critical as raw compute power, showing how algorithmic improvements have outpaced Moore’s Law by 44X. You’ll understand why the “bitter lesson” is misunderstood, learn the critical difference between small and large-scale phenomena, trace the fascinating evolution from Shannon’s entropy estimates through Google’s massive N-gram models…
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