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Complex Reasoning with Chain-of-Thought, Tree-of-Thought, and More
In our previous discussion, we explored the foundational prompting techniques of zero-shot and few-shot, highlighting how even a few...
Jul 294 min read


Mastering the Art of Prompting: Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Meta-Learning Approaches
In the rapidly evolving world of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, the ability to craft effective prompts has become an...
Jul 294 min read


Unpacking the Brain of an LLM: The Power of Embeddings
At the heart of every Large Language Model (LLM)'s ability to understand, generate, and reason with human language lies a concept as...
Jul 294 min read


Surfing the Waves of Learning: Mastering Cosine Annealing for LLMs
In the dynamic world of Large Language Model (LLM) training, the learning rate is arguably the most critical hyperparameter. It dictates...
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Cross-Entropy Loss: The Guiding Star of LLM Training
When a Large Language Model (LLM) is learning, it's essentially trying to master the art of prediction. Given a sequence of words, its...
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Understanding the Pulse of Training: Loss as Your LLM's Performance Metric
When you embark on the journey of training or fine-tuning a Large Language Model (LLM), it's a bit like guiding a ship through an...
Jul 293 min read


Crafting a Robust Evaluation Strategy for Your LLM
The world of Large Language Models (LLMs) is intoxicatingly exciting. From generating creative content to answering complex queries,...
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The LLM's Short-Term Memory: Understanding the Context Window
Imagine having a conversation with someone who can only remember the last few sentences you spoke, constantly forgetting everything said...
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The Power of SentencePiece Byte-Pair Encoding in LLMs
In the world of Large Language Models (LLMs), the way we break down raw text into manageable pieces for the model to understand is...
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Backward Pass for Multi-Head Attention (MHA) operator
The backward pass, or backpropagation, for the Multi-Head Attention (MHA) operator is where the model figures out how to adjust its...
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Multi-Head Attention: The Power of Multiple Perspectives in LLMs
If there's one mechanism that truly defines the revolutionary power of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the Transformer architecture...
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AdamW: The Gold Standard Optimizer for Training LLMs
When it comes to training Large Language Models (LLMs), the sheer scale and complexity of these neural networks demand highly efficient...
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How Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE) Power Modern LLMs
In the vast landscape of Large Language Models (LLMs), understanding the sequential order of words is paramount. Simply embedding words...
Jul 293 min read


Unlocking Deeper Understanding: Gated Linear Units (GLU) and Their Variants in LLMs
In the quest to build ever more capable Large Language Models (LLMs), researchers continually refine every architectural component....
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SwiGLU: The Gated Activation Fueling Modern LLMs
In the intricate machinery of Large Language Models (LLMs), every component plays a vital role in transforming raw text into coherent and...
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RMSNorm: A Smarter Way to Stabilize Your LLM Training
In the complex world of Large Language Models (LLMs), training massive neural networks with billions of parameters is a monumental task....
Jul 293 min read


Under the Hood of LLaMA: Decoding its Transformer Architecture
In the rapidly evolving landscape of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) and its successors have emerged...
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The Power of Mixed Precision Training in LLM Training
Training Large Language Models (LLMs) is an incredibly resource-intensive endeavor. These colossal models, with billions of parameters,...
Jul 293 min read


Supercharging Efficiency: Diving into LoRA and QLoRA Parameters for LLM Fine-Tuning
The world of Large Language Models (LLMs) is characterized by ever-growing model sizes, boasting billions, even trillions, of parameters....
Jul 284 min read


Taming Complexity: Understanding Weight Decay (λ) in LLM Fine-Tuning
Imagine you're designing a complex machine. You want each part to be robust and perform its function, but you don't want any single part...
Jul 284 min read
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