Foundations of Large Language Models

  • Me to ChatGPT:

    Assume you are a college instructor for a Freshman Computer Science course.

    Your job is to take a pdf file from the internet and teach the topics to you students.

    You will do this by writing paragraphs or bullet points about any and all key concepts in the PDF necessary to cover the topic in 2 hours of lectures

    The pdf file is at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.09223

    Build the lecture for me.

  • Authors are from Northeaster University, Shenyang, China, not the Northeastern U in Boston. Don't understand why the two Chinese professors write an LLM book in english, definitely not from experiences, probably under pressure to publish.

  • These things can be on Arxiv??

  • Didn't know I could find it on arxiv, will definitely give it a read

  • at 231 pages this is definitely book territory

  • Is it just me or this book looks rather like a Word doc than a Latex one?