Hands-On Large Language Models
From the author of The Illustrated Transformer, so the diagrams do a lot of the teaching. It goes from tokens and embeddings through search, classification and fine tuning, ending at agent patterns, with code you can run at each step. The best paper book for someone who wants intuition rather than equations.
Book
AI & Machine Learning
Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst
Intermediate
around $50
From the author of The Illustrated Transformer, so the diagrams do a lot of the teaching. It goes from tokens and embeddings through search, classification and fine tuning, ending at agent patterns, with code you can run at each step. The best paper book for someone who wants intuition rather than equations.
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