IIT Madras offers comprehensive course on Transformers and LLMs
kalyan_kpl · x · 2026-08-26
IIT Madras is offering a detailed course covering foundational concepts of Transformer models, Pretrained Language Models, and LLMs. The syllabus includes Transformer architecture, Attention mechanisms (Self, Multi-headed), Positional Encoding, Normalization, Language Modelling, Pre-training & Fine-tuning, Decoding & Sampling strategies, Sub-Word Embeddings, and specific models like BERT, GPT, and BART.
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