Northeastern University Researchers Release Open-Access Book on LLM Foundations
kalyan_kpl · x · 2026-08-12
Researchers Tong Xiao and Jingbo Zhu from the NLP Lab at Northeastern University have released an open-access book titled Foundations of Large Language Models.
Focusing on foundational concepts rather than just cutting-edge technologies, the book is structured into five main chapters covering pre-training, generative models, prompting, alignment, and inference. It is designed for college students, professionals, and practitioners in NLP and related fields.
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