Course overview
This course provides an in-depth exploration of large language models (LLMs), focusing on advanced principles underlying their architecture, development, and deployment. Students will engage in training, fine-tuning, and benchmarking LLMs, while critically analysing their capabilities and limitations across diverse downstream applications. Through extensive hands-on practicals, students will develop proficiency in building personalised AI agents with ethic consideration and adopt responsible approaches for their application in both industry and academia.
- Foundations of Large Language Models
- Training and Enhancing LLMs
- Downstream Applications of LLMs
Course learning outcomes
- Identify and explain the foundational principles of LLMs, including architecture, data sources, training pipelines, benchmarking, and ethical/societal considerations.
- Critically evaluate existing LLM architectures and training strategies, identifying their capabilities, limitations, and emerging trends.
- Apply practical techniques to train, fine-tune, and deploy LLMs, addressing performance limitations identified during evaluation.
- Design methods to enhance inference speed and reasoning capabilities, and extend LLM knowledge through techniques such as prompting, augmentation, and chaining.
- Develop and apply LLM-based solutions for real-world downstream applications across diverse domains and consider ethical/societal factors.
Availability
Class details
Mawson Lakes
Class number 24960
Section FR01
Size 40
Available 40
Class number 24074
Section PR01
Size 20
Available 20
Class number 24073
Section PR02
Size 20
Available 20
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 24961
Section FR01
Size 60
Available 60
Class number 24962
Section PR01
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 24963
Section PR02
Size 30
Available 30
Class details
Mawson Lakes
Class number 55070
Section FR01
Size 40
Available 40
Class number 55071
Section PR01
Size 20
Available 20
Class number 55072
Section PR02
Size 20
Available 20
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 55073
Section FR01
Size 60
Available 60
Class number 55074
Section PR01
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 55075
Section PR02
Size 30
Available 30
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