The Foundation Course

Large Language Models.

Don't just prompt models, architect them. Go from an empty file to a functional LLM by coding the complete Transformer from scratch. We strip away the libraries so you can achieve true mastery.

Python 3.11
PyTorch
Jupyter
CUDA

Prerequisites

  • Intermediate Python

  • Basic Linear Algebra

  • No prior Deep Learning knowledge required

Architecture

Model TypeTransformer (GPT)
TokenizerByte-Pair Encoding
AttentionMulti-Head Causal

Course Syllabus

01

Fundamentals and Data

Every massive AI model starts the exact same way. We bypass high-level abstractions, implementing the BPE algorithm to convert raw text into numerical tokens from scratch.

02

Embeddings

Transition from standard Python into the high-performance, multi-dimensional world of PyTorch Tensors. Solve the "Bag of Words" problem by giving the AI a mathematical sense of time.

03

Self-Attention

The heart of the Transformer. We mathematically reconstruct the mechanism that allows the model to understand context via Queries, Keys, and Values.

04

Multi-Head Attention

A single head is a bottleneck. We build a "Committee of Experts" via tensor gymnastics to track grammar, sentiment, and abstract concepts simultaneously across a GPU.

05

The Transformer Block

We assemble our components into the modern Pre-Norm Architecture, adding Feed-Forward Networks, Residual Connections, and Layer Normalization.

06

Assembling the LLM

We stack multiple blocks sequentially to build the deep network, construct the Language Modeling Head, and write the autoregressive loop to make the AI talk.

07

Pre-Training

Breathing life into the model. We define the objective with Cross-Entropy Loss, initialize the AdamW optimizer, and execute the deep learning training loop.

08

Fine-Tuning for Chat

Turn a pattern-matching base model into a helpful conversational assistant via Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), specialized tokens, and loss masking.

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