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EE-628: Training Large Language Models

Summary

This PhD-level course dives deep into the training of Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on the complementary roles of datasets, pre-training and post training methodologies in shaping model performance and scalability.

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Instructors (2)

Volkan Cevher

Volkan Cevher received the B.Sc. (valedictorian) in electrical engineering from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, in 1999 and the Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA in 2005. He was a Research Scientist with the University of Maryland, College Park from 2006-2007 and also with Rice University in Houston, TX, from 2008-2009. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne and a Faculty Fellow in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rice University. His research interests include machine learning, signal processing theory, optimization theory and methods, and information theory. Dr. Cevher is an ELLIS fellow and was the recipient of the Google Faculty Research award in 2018, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2016, a Best Paper Award at CAMSAP in 2015, a Best Paper Award at SPARS in 2009, and an ERC CG in 2016 as well as an ERC StG in 2011.

Caglar Gulcehre

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/training-large-language-models-EE-628

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/EE-628

Summary

Lectures

Instructors (2)

Volkan Cevher

Caglar Gulcehre

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/training-large-language-models-EE-628

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/EE-628

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