This book delves into large language models, honing in on foundational concepts rather than the latest technologies. Organized into four chapters, the book covers pre-training, generative models, prompting techniques, and alignment methods. Designed for college students, professionals, and practitioners in natural language processing, this book doubles as a reference for anyone fascinated by large language models. Controversial information or surprising elements not highlighted.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09223