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Efficient Large Language Model (LLM) Customization
Enterprises need to execute language-related tasks daily, such as text classification, content generation, sentiment analysis, and customer chat support. Large language models can automate these...
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$500 USD
Duration
1 day
Course Code
NV-ELLM
Available Formats
Classroom
Overview
Enterprises need to execute language-related tasks daily, such as text classification, content generation, sentiment analysis, and customer chat support. Large language models can automate these tasks, enabling enterprises to enhance operations, reduce costs, and boost productivity.
In this course, you'll go beyond using out-of-the-box pretrained LLMs and learn a variety of techniques to efficiently customize pretrained LLMs for your specific use cases—without engaging in the computationally intensive and expensive process of pretraining your own model or fine-tuning a model's internal weights. Using the open-source NVIDIA NeMo™ framework, you’ll learn prompt engineering and various parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods to customize LLM behavior for your organization.
Skills Gained
- Use prompt engineering to improve the performance of pretrained LLMs
- Apply various fine-tuning techniques with limited data to accomplish tasks specific to your use cases
- Use a single pretrained model to perform multiple custom tasks
- Leverage the NeMo framework to customize models like GPT, LLaMA-2, and Falcon with ease
Prerequisites
- Professional experience with the Python programming language
- Familiarity with fundamental deep learning topics like model architecture, training, and inference
- Familiarity with a modern Python-based deep learning framework (PyTorch preferred)
- Familiarity working with out-of-the-box pretrained LLMs
Course Details
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Engineering Effective Prompts
- Customized Prompt Learning
- Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) and Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)
- Assessment and Q&A
Schedule
FAQ
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had a good time with the course, however some topics were left out due to the compact amount of time for training.
the course is good, covers many aspects, wish the lab is a little bit more in depth
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It was very informative and covered all the required materials along with handson labs for practice.
Easy to work with. Learning material pdfs were able to be printed out in color which was very nice to write on.
