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LLM Engineer's Handbook

LLM Engineer's Handbook

By : Paul Iusztin, Maxime Labonne
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LLM Engineer's Handbook

LLM Engineer's Handbook

4.8 (25)
By: Paul Iusztin, Maxime Labonne

Overview of this book

Artificial intelligence has undergone rapid advancements, and Large Language Models (LLMs) are at the forefront of this revolution. This LLM book offers insights into designing, training, and deploying LLMs in real-world scenarios by leveraging MLOps best practices. The guide walks you through building an LLM-powered twin that’s cost-effective, scalable, and modular. It moves beyond isolated Jupyter notebooks, focusing on how to build production-grade end-to-end LLM systems. Throughout this book, you will learn data engineering, supervised fine-tuning, and deployment. The hands-on approach to building the LLM Twin use case will help you implement MLOps components in your own projects. You will also explore cutting-edge advancements in the field, including inference optimization, preference alignment, and real-time data processing, making this a vital resource for those looking to apply LLMs in their projects. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in deploying LLMs that solve practical problems while maintaining low-latency and high-availability inference capabilities. Whether you are new to artificial intelligence or an experienced practitioner, this book delivers guidance and practical techniques that will deepen your understanding of LLMs and sharpen your ability to implement them effectively.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Fine-tuning in practice

Let’s now fine-tune an open-source model on our custom dataset. In this section, we will show an example that implements LoRA and QLoRA for efficiency. Depending on the hardware you have available, you can select the technique that best corresponds to your configuration.

There are many efficient open-weight models we can leverage for task or domain-specific use cases. To select the most relevant LLM, we need to consider three main parameters:

  • License: Some model licenses only allow non-commercial work, which is a problem if we want to fine-tune for a company. Custom licenses are common in this field, and can target companies with a certain number of users, for example.
  • Budget: Models with smaller parameter sizes (<10 B) are a lot cheaper to fine-tune and deploy for inference than larger models. This is due to the fact that they can be run on cheaper GPUs and process more tokens per second.
  • Performance: Evaluating the base...
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