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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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Model quantization

Quantization refers to the process of representing the weights and activations of a neural network using lower-precision data types. In the context of LLMs, quantization primarily focuses on reducing the precision of the model’s weights and activations.

By default, weights are typically stored in a 16-bit or 32-bit floating-point format (FP16 or FP32), which provides high precision but comes at the cost of increased memory usage and computational complexity. Quantization is a solution to reduce the memory footprint and accelerate the inference of LLMs.

In addition to these benefits, larger models with over 30 billion parameters can outperform smaller models (7B–13B LLMs) in terms of quality when quantized to 2- or 3-bit precision. This means they can achieve superior performance while maintaining a comparable memory footprint.

In this section, we will introduce the concepts of quantization, GGUF with llama.cpp, GPTQ, and EXL2, along with...

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