Chollet recommends reading Ch 15-16 to build LLMs from scratch
fchollet · x · 2026-08-25
François Chollet retweeted a recommendation for the third edition of Deep Learning with Python, specifically highlighting chapters 15-16. These chapters are ideal for readers wanting to build LLMs from scratch. Chollet noted that Chapter 15 contains one of the best explanations available for why dot-product attention works.
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