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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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Summary

In summary, inference optimization is a critical aspect of deploying LLMs effectively. This chapter explored various optimization techniques, including optimized generation methods, model parallelism, and weight quantization. Significant speedups can be achieved by leveraging techniques like predicting multiple tokens in parallel with speculative decoding, or using an optimized attention mechanism with FlashAttention-2. Additionally, we discussed how model parallelism methods, including data, pipeline, and tensor parallelism, distribute the computational load across multiple GPUs to increase throughput and reduce latency. Weight quantization, with formats like GGUF and EXL2, further reduces the memory footprint and accelerates inference, with some calculated tradeoff in output quality.

Understanding and applying these optimization strategies are essential for achieving high performance in practical applications of LLMs, such as chatbots and code completion. The choice...

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