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Developing an LLM: Building, Training, Finetuning (A 1h Video Explainer)

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Re: Developing an LLM: Building, Training, Finetuning (A 1h Video Explainer)

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Seems very good, thank you.

The channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SebastianRaschka/videos

contains hundreds of video lessons, originally seemingly originating from Sebastian Raschka teaching at Wisconsin-Madison Uni (before he went full-time entrepreneur).

Re: Developing an LLM: Building, Training, Finetuning (A 1h Video Explainer)

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Seems very good, thank you. The channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SebastianRaschka/videos contains hundreds of video lessons, originally seemingly originating from Sebastian Raschka teaching at Wisconsin-Madison Uni (before he went full-time entrepreneur).

Thanks, glad that this is helpful!

Re: Developing an LLM: Building, Training, Finetuning (A 1h Video Explainer)

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Is anyone training LLMs outside of Meta, OpenAI, etc... ?

I don't much get the point. For huge models, it's impossible to outcompete them. For smaller models, isn't mistral or LLaMa good enough?

What are other startups finetuning LLMs for?

Re: Developing an LLM: Building, Training, Finetuning (A 1h Video Explainer)

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Is anyone training LLMs outside of Meta, OpenAI, etc... ? I don't much get the point. For huge models, it's impossible to outcompete them. For smaller models, isn't mistral or LLaMa good enough? What are other startups finetuning LLMs for?

I wouldn't pretrain from scratch, but continued pretraining is pretty popular for adapating LLMs to recent and/or custom data. (Sometimes this is referred to 'finetuning', however, not to be confused with 'instruction finetuning').

Re: Developing an LLM: Building, Training, Finetuning (A 1h Video Explainer)

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Is anyone training LLMs outside of Meta, OpenAI, etc... ? I don't much get the point. For huge models, it's impossible to outcompete them. For smaller models, isn't mistral or LLaMa good enough? What are other startups finetuning LLMs for?

I find it can be nice to have an academic understanding of things you work with even if you don't have to develop it directly yourself.

Re: Developing an LLM: Building, Training, Finetuning (A 1h Video Explainer)

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Is anyone training LLMs outside of Meta, OpenAI, etc... ? I don't much get the point. For huge models, it's impossible to outcompete them. For smaller models, isn't mistral or LLaMa good enough? What are other startups finetuning LLMs for?

I find it can be nice to have an academic understanding of things you work with even if you don't have to develop it directly yourself.

Agreed, understanding how a method works and how it would be done helps with developing an intuition for its limitations -- what it can and what it can't do
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