277-page 'Foundations of Large Language Models' textbook released free on arXiv, covering pre-training to inference
leslysandra · x · 2026-09-08
Tong Xiao and Jingbo Zhu's book Foundations of Large Language Models is available as a free 277-page PDF on arXiv (2501.09223, v2 revised June 2025).
Focusing on foundational concepts rather than exhaustive coverage of cutting-edge techniques, it is organized into five chapters:
- Pre-training
- Generative models
- Prompting
- Alignment
- Inference
Aimed at students and practitioners in NLP and related fields.
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