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Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs)

by NPTEL IIT Delhi · 38 videos

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1 Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) 7:14 2024-12-04
2 Lec 01 | Introduction and Recent Advances 49:29 2025-01-17
3 Lec 02 | Introduction to Natural Language Processing 51:47 2025-01-17
4 Lec 03 | Introduction to Statistical Language Models 52:47 2025-01-24
5 Lec 04 | Statistical LM: Advanced Smoothing and Evaluation 55:37 2025-01-24
6 Lec 05 | Introduction to Deep Learning 1:23:28 2025-01-24
7 Lec 06 | Introduction to PyTorch 1:02:58 2025-01-31
8 Lec 07 | Word Representation: Word2Vec & fastText 1:14:28 2025-02-07
9 Lec 08 | Word Representation: GloVe 28:00 2025-02-07
10 Lec 09 | Tokenization Strategies 1:13:09 2025-02-07
11 Lec 10 | Neural Language Models: CNN & RNN 40:13 2025-02-14
12 Lec 11 | Neural Language Models: LSTM & GRU 36:52 2025-02-14
13 Lec 12 | Sequence-to-Sequence Models 22:36 2025-02-14
14 Lec 13 | Decoding Strategies 17:45 2025-02-14
15 Lec 14 | Attention in Sequence-to-Sequence Models 20:53 2025-02-14
16 Lec 15 | Introduction to Transformer: Self & Multi-Head Attention 1:01:44 2025-02-21
17 Lec 16 | Introduction to Transformer: Positional Encoding and Layer Normalization 1:26:53 2025-02-21
18 Lec 17 | Implementation of Transformer using PyTorch 43:33 2025-02-21
19 Lec 18 | Pre-Training Strategies: ELMo, BERT 48:23 2025-02-28
20 Lec 19 | Pre-Training Strategies: Encoder-decoder and Decoder-only Models 54:33 2025-03-01
21 Lec 20 | Introduction to HuggingFace 48:39 2025-02-28
22 Lec 21 | Instruction Tuning 32:53 2025-03-07
23 Lec 22 | Prompt-based Learning 1:00:52 2025-03-07
24 Lec 23 | Advanced Prompting and Prompt Sensitivity 30:37 2025-03-07
25 Lec 24 | Alignment of Language Models-I 1:03:35 2025-03-07
26 Lec 25 | Alignment of Language Models-II 43:03 2025-03-07
27 Lec 26 | Knowledge and Retrieval: Knowledge Graph 21:38 2025-03-14
28 Lec 27 | Knowledge and Retrieval: Knowledge Graph Completion and Evaluation 27:44 2025-03-14
29 Lec 28 | Knowledge and Retrieval: Translation and Rotation Models 20:01 2025-03-14
30 Lec 29 | Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) 1:02:59 2025-03-23
31 Lec 30 | Quantization, Pruning & Distillation 57:10 2025-03-23
32 Lec 31 | An Alternate Formulation of Transformers: Residual Stream Perspective 46:35 2025-03-23
33 Lec 32 | Interpretability Techniques 1:03:21 2025-03-23
34 Lec 33 | Knowledge and Retrieval: Multiplicative models 36:25 2025-03-28
35 Lec 34 | Knowledge and Retrieval: Modeling Hierarchies 26:19 2025-03-28
36 Lec 35 | Knowledge and Retrieval: Temporal Knowledge Graphs 25:52 2025-03-28
37 Lec 36 | Responsible LLMs 53:29 2025-04-06
38 Lec 37 | Conclusion: Expert Panel Discussion 46:09 2025-04-06
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