Learn how ChatGPT and DeepSeek models work: How Transformer LLMs Work [Free Course]
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We're ecstatic to bring you "How Transformer LLMs Work" -- a free course with ~90 minutes of video, code, and crisp visuals and animations that explain the modern Transformer architecture, tokenizers, embeddings, and mixture-of-expert models.
@MaartenGrootendorst and I have developed a lot of the visual language over the last several years (tens of thousands of iterations for hundreds of figures) for the book. This was informed by many incredible colleagues at Cohere, C4AI, and the open source and open science ML community. But to have an opportunity to collaborate with the legendary Andrew Ng and the team at @Deeplearningai we took them to the next level with animations and a concise narrative meant to enable technical learners to pick up an ML paper and understand the architecture description.
In this course, you'll learn how a transformer network architecture that powers LLMs works. You'll build the intuition of how LLMs process text and work with code examples that illustrate the key components of the transformer architecture.
Key topics covered in this course include:
The evolution of how language has been represented numerically, from the Bag-of-Words model through Word2Vec embeddings to the transformer architecture that captures word meanings in full context.
How LLM inputs are broken down into tokens, which represent words or pieces before they are sent to the language model.
The details of a transformer and the three main stages, consisting of tokenization and embedding, the stack of transformer blocks, and the language model head.
The details of the transformer block, including attention, which calculates relevance scores followed by the feedforward layer, which incorporates stored information learned in training.
How cached calculations make transformers faster, how the transformer block has evolved over the years since the original p
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