Learn to build a complete large language model from scratch using only pure PyTorch. This course takes you through the entire lifecycle, from foundational concepts to advanced alignment techniques. By the end, you'll have the deep, hands-on experience needed to build and customize your own LLMs.
✏️ Course developed by Vivek Kalyanarangan.
? Code: https://github.com/vivekkalyanarangan30/llm_from_scratch
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⭐️ Contents ⭐️
0:00:00 Part 0 - Introduction
0:05:43 Part 1 - Core Transformer Architecture
0:40:24 Part 2 — Training a Tiny LLM
1:30:27 Part 3 — Modernizing the Architecture
2:33:53 Part 4 — Scaling Up
3:17:22 Part 5 — Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)
3:44:19 Part 6 — Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)
4:23:44 Part 7 — Reward Modeling
4:59:55 Part 8 — RLHF with PPO
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