LLM Lecture: A Deep Dive into Transformers, Prompts, and Human Feedback

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The first 500 people to use my link will receive a one month free trial of Skillshare! Get started today! ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://skl.sh/aicoffeebreakwithletitia01251 ๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ“บThis video is an educational and historical deep dive into LLM research, where we would like to show you and convince you that while ChatGPT seemingly emerged overnight, itโ€™s built on years of foundational work and innovation on LLM technology. AI Coffee Break Merch! ๐Ÿ›๏ธ https://ai-coffee-break-with-letitia.myspreadshop.de/ Thanks to our Patrons who support us in Tier 2, 3, 4: ๐Ÿ™ Dres. Trost GbR, Siltax, Vignesh Valliappan, Michael, Sunny Dhiana, Andy Ma Outline: 00:00 Lecture contents 01:30 Skillshare (Sponsor) 02:54 The Transformer 05:49 Tokenization 10:11 The Transformer layer 14:04 Attention 22:31 Position embeddings 27:42 Residual connections 29:55 How transformers learn language 34:40 Training Decoders (e.g., GPT) 40:46 Decoder inference / test time 43:55 Encoders (e.g., BERT) 47:45 Encoder-Decoders (e.g., T5). 53:24 Why LLMs need prompting 57:00 Vanilla prompting 01:01:35 Prompt tuning 01:03:03 In context (few-shot) learning 01:07:50 Chain-of-Thought 01:10:25 Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). 01:12:14 Beyond pre-training: Post-training techniques 01:13:50 Instruction Tuning 01:16:00 Preference Tuning with Human Feedback via DPO 01:19:20 RLHF key idea 01:21:14 Benchmarking LLMs: Emergent capabilities and how (not) to measure them 01:24:50 Multimodal extensions of LLMs 01:28:04 Gopnikโ€™s Parable of Stone Soup AI ๐Ÿ“‘Allison Gopnik's Stone Soup AI: https://simons.berkeley.edu/news/stone-soup-ai ๐Ÿ“‘Alexei Efrosโ€™s talk at the @LaureateForum : https://youtu.be/K0gavpe0uDo?si=FdsURxkV39fyU1NV โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€ ๐Ÿ”ฅ Optionally, pay us a coffee to help with our Coffee Bean production! โ˜• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AICoffeeBreak Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/aicoffeebreak Join this channel as a Bean Member to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCobqgqE4i5Kf7wrxRxhToQA/join โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€โ–€ ๐Ÿ”— Links: AICoffeeBreakQuiz: https://www.youtube.com/c/AICoffeeBreak/community Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/AICoffeeBreak LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/letitia-parcalabescu/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@ai.coffee.break Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/aicoffeebreak.bsky.social Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AICoffeeBreak/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/AICoffeeBreak Substack: https://aicoffeebreakwl.substack.com/ Web: https://explanationmark.de/letitia https://aicoffeebreak.com #AICoffeeBreak #MsCoffeeBean #MachineLearning #AI #researchโ€‹ Video editing: Nils Trost

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