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Foundations of Large Language Models

by pkoird on 1/23/25, 1:33 AM with 20 comments

• by MR4D on 1/23/25, 5:42 AM

  Me to ChatGPT:

  Assume you are a college instructor for a Freshman Computer Science course.

  Your job is to take a pdf file from the internet and teach the topics to you students.

  You will do this by writing paragraphs or bullet points about any and all key concepts in the PDF necessary to cover the topic in 2 hours of lectures

  The pdf file is at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.09223

  Build the lecture for me.

• by drmindle12358 on 1/23/25, 4:51 PM

  Authors are from Northeaster University, Shenyang, China, not the Northeastern U in Boston. Don't understand why the two Chinese professors write an LLM book in english, definitely not from experiences, probably under pressure to publish.

• by thatxliner on 1/23/25, 5:05 AM

  These things can be on Arxiv??

• by crisissolution on 1/23/25, 8:26 AM

  Didn't know I could find it on arxiv, will definitely give it a read

• by htrp on 1/23/25, 3:42 AM

  at 231 pages this is definitely book territory

• by hintymad on 1/23/25, 7:23 AM

  Is it just me or this book looks rather like a Word doc than a Latex one?