Hugging Face NLP Course
Hugging Face
A free, online course by Hugging Face, a leading company in NLP tools and models. It covers transformers, fine-tuning, and using the Hugging Face ecosystem, which is crucial for practical LLM work.
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The TWIML AI Podcast
Long-running interview podcast hosted by Sam Charrington in which ML and AI researchers and practitioners discuss their work on deep learning, natural language processing, neural networks and data science, helping listeners follow current research and how it is applied in industry.
The Illustrated Transformer by Jay Alammar
A brilliant visual explanation of the Transformer architecture, making complex concepts much easier to grasp. This is often cited as a first step for many learners.
"BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding" (Devlin et al., 2018)
Introduced BERT, a breakthrough in pre-training language representations using a Transformer encoder, significantly impacting the development of LLMs.
"Attention Is All You Need" (Vaswani et al., 2017)
The seminal paper that introduced the Transformer architecture, which is the foundation of almost all modern Large Language Models (LLMs). Essential reading for anyone serious about understanding LLMs.
Speech and Language Processing
Free draft third edition of the standard NLP textbook, covering n-gram and neural language models, word embeddings, transformers, sequence labeling, parsing, machine translation and speech recognition. Readers gain the theory needed to build and evaluate modern language-processing systems.
GenAI Handbook: A Roadmap for Learning Resources
A comprehensive open-source handbook acting as a roadmap for understanding the core concepts of modern artificial intelligence systems, with a strong focus on Generative AI.