Language Models Bootcamp Day 1 Highlights

𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩! 🚀
Day 1 of our LLM Bootcamp was an exhilarating journey into the heart of Large Language Models. Here's a glimpse into the cutting-edge topics our participants dived into:
𝟏. 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦: Raja Iqbal kickstarted the day with an expansive overview of the LLM ecosystem, unveiling the technologies and frameworks driving the generative AI revolution.
𝟐. 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐋𝐌𝐬: This session focused on the practical hurdles enterprises face when adopting LLMs, discussing engineering, ethical, and legal challenges. Raja equipped attendees with the knowledge to navigate and mitigate these risks effectively.
𝟑. 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬: Luis Serrano captivated our audience with an in-depth session on attention mechanisms and transformers. From self-attention to multi-headed attention and encoder/decoder architecture, participants unraveled the complexities of these vital components of LLMs.
𝟒. 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: Raja further provided a comprehensive review of classical text representation techniques and the power of semantic embeddings like Word2Vec. This session laid a solid theoretical foundation for understanding how embeddings have evolved in text analytics and NLP tasks.
𝟓. 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬-𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐓𝐅-𝐈𝐃𝐅 & 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫: The day concluded with a practical session where participants got their hands dirty with TF-IDF and Transformer exercises, including:
o Preparing datasets with vectors
o Writing data schemas for a vector database (using Redis)
o Storing the data and creating a vector search index
o Performing complex queries on a vector database including tag filters, numeric filters, text filters, geographic filters, combining filters, unions, range queries, and more.
By the end of the day, attendees walked away with a robust understanding of LLM architecture, embeddings, attention mechanisms, and practical skills in handling vector databases.
🌐 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲: hubs.la/Q02DjWtK0