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Build with LLMs: Hands-on Projects for Engineers, Researchers and Developers using Large Language Models, GPT, LLaMA, LangChain and Hugging Face

This is the unofficial repository for the book: Large Language Models: Apply and Implement Strategies for Large Language Models (Apress). The book is based on the content of this repository, but the notebooks are being updated, and I am incorporating new examples and chapters. If you are looking for the official repository for the book, with the original notebooks, you should visit the Apress repository, where you can find all the notebooks in their original format as they appear in the book. Buy it at: [Amazon] [Springer]

Please note that the course on GitHub does not contain all the information that is in the book.

This practical free hands on course about Large Language models and their applications is 👷🏼in permanent development👷🏼. I will be posting the different lessons and samples as I complete them.

The course provides a hands-on experience using models from OpenAI and the Hugging Face library. We are going to see and use a lot of tools and practice with small projects that will grow as we can apply the new knowledge acquired.

The course is divided into three major sections:

1- Techniques and Libraries:

In this part, we will explore different techniques through small examples that will enable us to build bigger projects in the following section. We will learn how to use the most common libraries in the world of Large Language Models, always with a practical focus, while basing our approach on published papers.

Some of the topics and technologies covered in this section include: Chatbots, Code Generation, OpenAI API, Hugging Face, Vector databases, LangChain, Fine Tuning, PEFT Fine Tuning, Soft Prompt tuning, LoRA, QLoRA, Evaluate Models, Knowledge Distillation.

2- Projects:

We will create projects, explaining design decisions. Each project may have more than one possible implementation, as often there is not just one perfect solution. In this section, we will also delve into LLMOps-related topics, although it is not the primary focus of the course.

3- Enterprise Solutions:

Large Language Models are not a standalone solution. In large corporate environments, they are just one piece of the puzzle. We will explore how to structure solutions capable of transforming organizations with thousands of employees, and how Large Language Models play a main role in these new solutions.

How to use the course.

Under each section you can find different chapters, that are formed by different lessons. The title of the lesson is a link to the lesson page, where you can found all the notebooks and articles of the lesson.

Each Lesson is conformed by notebooks and articles. The notebooks contain sufficient information for understanding the code within them, the article provides more detailed explanations about the code and the topic covered.

My advice is to have the article open alongside the notebook and follow along. Many of the articles offer small tips on variations that you can introduce to the notebooks. I recommend following them to enhance clarity of the concepts.

Most of the notebooks are hosted on Colab, while a few are on Kaggle. Kaggle provides more memory in the free version compared to Colab, but I find that co