HandsOnLLM/Hands-On-Large-Language-Models
Official code repo for the O'Reilly Book - "Hands-On Large Language Models"
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Welcome! In this repository you will find the code for all examples throughout the book Hands-On Large Language Models written by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst which we playfully dubbed: "The Illustrated LLM Book" Through the visually educational nature of this book and with almost 300 custom made figures, learn the practical tools and concepts you need to use Large Language Models today! The book is available on: We advise to run all examples through Google Colab for the easiest setup. Google Colab allows you to use a T4 GPU with 16GB of VRAM for free. All examples were mainly built and tested using Google Colab, so it should be the most stable platform. However, any other cloud…
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Official code repo for the O'Reilly Book - "Hands-On Large Language Models"
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