François Chollet Recommends Book Chapters for Building LLMs from Scratch
fchollet · x · 2026-08-25
François Chollet recommends chapters 15-16 of "Deep Learning with Python" for anyone (17 or older) wanting to build LLMs from scratch. The code uses Keras and runs on JAX, PyTorch, or TF, with TF-data for streaming. Chapter 15 specifically features one of the best explanations of why dot-product attention works.
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