Quick Start Guide to Large Language Models: Strategies and Best Practices for Using ChatGPT and Other LLMs (Early Release)
by Sinan Ozdemir


Book description

The Quick Start Guide to Large Language Models: Strategies and Best Practices for using ChatGPT and Other LLMs is a practical guide to the use of LLMs in NLP. It provides an overview of the key concepts and techniques used in LLMs and explains how these models work and how they can be used for various NLP tasks. The book also covers advanced topics, such as fine-tuning, alignment, and information retrieval while providing practical tips and tricks for training and optimizing LLMs for specific NLP tasks.

Topics covered:

• Coding with Large Language Models (LLMs)

• Overview of using proprietary models

• OpenAI, Embeddings, GPT3, and ChatGPT

• Vector databases and building a neural/semantic information retrieval system

• Fine-tuning GPT3 with custom examples

• Prompt engineering with GPT3 and ChatGPT

• Advanced prompt engineering techniques

• Building a recommendation engine

• Combining Transformers

• Deploying custom LLMs to the cloud