In this episode, we speak with Dr. Jon Krohn about the life cycle of open-source LLMs. Jon is a co-founder and chief data scientist at the machine learning company Nebula. He is the author of the book Deep Learning Illustrated, which was an instant #1 bestseller and was translated into seven languages. He is also the host of the fabulous SuperDataScience podcast, the data science industry’s most listened-to podcast. An incredible instructor and speaker, Jon’s workshops at ODSC conferences and other events are always one of our most popular.

Topics:

1. Guest Introduction

2. Definition of an open source LLMs and what it means to be truly open source

3. The importance of LLM weights and neural networks architecture for training

4. Transformer architecture

5. Apple expanding their AI team

6. What do I need to train or fine-tune an LLM

7. Key libraries for fine-tunning an LLM

8. The LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) technique for efficiently fine-tuning large language models

9. Testing and evaluating LLMs prior to deploying in production

10. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

11. Deploying LLM to production

12. How to keep inference costs down

13. How can people follow Jon’s content (see show notes also)

Show Notes: More about Jon:

⁠LinkedIn⁠

⁠Jon’s YouTube Channel⁠

⁠Jon’s Monthly Newsletter⁠

Tools and Resources:

⁠Michael Nielsen's eBook on Neural Networks and Deep Learning ⁠⁠PyTorch Lightning is the deep learning framework⁠ ⁠Hugging Face Transformers Library⁠⁠Vicuna: An Open-Source Chatbot⁠ ⁠LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models⁠⁠SDS 674: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLMs using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)⁠⁠Unsloth for finetuning Llama 3, Mistral & Gemma⁠⁠Phoenix: an open-source AI Observability & Evaluation tool⁠⁠ODSC Podcast with Amber Roberts on Phoenix and troubleshooting LLMs⁠⁠Weights & Biases⁠

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