Title: Understanding the LLM Development Cycle: Building, Training, and Finetuning
Date: June 5, 2024
Duration: 1 HR
SPEAKER
Sebastian Raschka
Staff Research Engineer, Lightning AI
MODERATOR
Marlene Mhangami
Senior Developer Advocate, Microsoft
ABSTRACT
This talk will guide you through the key stages of developing large language models (LLMs), from initial coding to deployment. We will start by explaining how these models are built, including the coding of their architectures. Next, we will discuss the processes of pre-training and finetuning, showing what these stages involve and why they are important. Throughout the talk, we will provide real examples and encourage questions, making this a practical and interactive session for anyone interested in how LLMs are created and used.
