Introduction to Large Language Models

This week introduces large language models from a beginner-friendly angle: feel the difference between AI, ML, and NLP, see how transformers and embeddings work, and practice LLMs in real-world settings. We’ll use the ClassifAI tool to explore how LLMs can classify text.

Introduction

Live coding

We will give a demonstration of the ClassifAI tool using data from the Nigeria Labour Force Survey..live-coding session.

Lab

Exercise

Please take a look at the documentation in the ClassifAI GitHub repo and familiarise yourself with the semantic search pipeline.

If you are feeling brave, try out the ClassifAI demo

Further reading

• Introduction to Large Language Models (Google): https://www.skills.google/course_templates/539
• Introduction to large language models (Microsoft): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-large-language-models/
• LLM Course documentation (HuggingFace): https://huggingface.co/learn/llm-course/chapter1/1