LLM Engineering Fundamentals: A Beginner's Guide to Development and Prompt Engineering

A comprehensive introduction to Large Language Models, covering their fundamentals, development lifecycle, prompt engineering techniques, and practical applications using open-source tools.

Introduction to Large Language Models

Unit 1: Understanding LLMs: Definition and Differentiation

Unit 2: Key Characteristics of LLMs

Unit 3: Diving Deeper into Transformer Architecture

Unit 4: Applications Across Domains

Unit 5: Ethical Considerations and Risks

LLM Development Lifecycle

Unit 1: Understanding the LLM Lifecycle

Unit 2: Pre-training in Detail

Unit 3: Fine-tuning and Evaluation

Unit 4: Deployment

LLM Pipeline and Core Components

Unit 1: Introduction to LLM Pipelines

Unit 2: Tokenization Techniques

Unit 3: Word Embeddings

Unit 4: Decoding Strategies

Prompt Engineering and Practical Applications

Unit 1: Fundamentals of Prompt Engineering

Unit 2: Advanced Prompting Strategies

Unit 3: Mitigating Challenges with Prompt Engineering