Hands-On-Large-Language-Models vs transformers

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	Hands-On-Large-Language-Models	transformers
Tagline	Code repository for Hands-On Large Language Models	🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models
Stars	27k	162k
Forks	6.4k	34k
Open issues	37	2.5k
Language	Jupyter Notebook	Python
License	Apache-2.0	Apache-2.0
Last pushed	Apr 24, 2026	Jul 7, 2026
Categories	Developer Tools, LLM Frameworks	Data & Retrieval, Model Training, LLM Frameworks

Hands-On-Large-Language-Models

This repository contains the code and Jupyter Notebook examples from Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst’s O'Reilly publication 'Hands-On Large Language Models', providing practical insights into using Large Language Models.

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transformers

Repo hosts a Python library and framework for NLP, text, audio, vision, multimodal AI model creation, training and inference using PyTorch.

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