New Book Teaches Beginners to Build and Fine-Tune Their Own GPT-Style SLMs, With Colab Notebooks
Roger_M_Taylor · x · 2026-09-10
KirkDBorne shares a new book, How to Build and Fine-Tune a Small Language Model, aimed at beginners, students, scientists, and domain experts who want to build SLMs without a PhD, expensive hardware, or industry-level resources.
Key points:
- Goes from zero to a working GPT-style model, then covers fine-tuning, alignment, evaluation, and deployment
- Focuses on hands-on practice rather than explaining what models are
- Every chapter ships with ready-to-run Google Colab notebooks
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