Unit 3: Developing LLMs

Published

February 3, 2025

In this unit, you will get an overview of different issues related to the development of large language models. In particular, the unit covers training strategies, the issue of data, emergent abilities of LLMs, and LLM alignment. It also discusses scaling laws, an important empirical finding about the relationship between the size and performance of large language models.

Section Title Video Slides Quiz
3.1 Introduction to LLM development video slides quiz
3.2 Training LLMs video slides quiz
3.3 Data for LLM pretraining video slides quiz
3.4 Scaling laws video slides quiz
3.5 Emergent abilities of LLMs video slides quiz
3.6 LLM alignment video slides quiz

Lab 3 will be published on 2025-02-10.