François Chollet recommends chapters for building LLMs from scratch

fchollet · x · 2026-08-25

Keras creator François Chollet recommends reading chapters 15-16 of 'Deep Learning with Python' to learn how to build Large Language Models from scratch. Specifically, chapter 15 features one of the best explanations available on WHY dot-product attention works.

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