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Build Your First LLM from Scratch

Learn core LLM concepts by building a tiny calculator model that converts English math phrases to answers using Python and PyTorch. This tutorial is divided into 8 parts.

1

Foundations

Build the mental model of how LLMs work before writing any code

2

The Project

Understand why we're building a calculator and what the final result looks like

3

Tokenization & Embeddings

Convert text to meaningful number representations that the model can process

4

Attention Mechanism

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Understand and implement the core transformer innovation

5

Building the Complete Model

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Assemble all components into a working transformer

6

Training

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Train the model on our calculator dataset

7

Generation, Evaluation & Deployment

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Use the model and share it

8

Scaling Up (Optional)

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Show how to expand to bigger tasks