NiuTrans releases free LLM textbook covering pre-training to reasoning
NiuTrans · hf · 2026-10-09
NiuTrans published Foundations of Large Language Models on Hugging Face, a textbook focused on foundational concepts rather than exhaustive frontier coverage.
The book has six chapters: pre-training, generative models, prompting, alignment, inference, and reasoning. It targets college students, professionals, and practitioners in NLP and related fields, and can serve as a reference for anyone interested in LLMs.
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