Hands-on Hugging Face - Live Toronto Large Language Models (LLMs) Workshop

About

Date 📅: Saturday, December 14th, 2024
Time 🕤: 9:30 - 11:30 AM
Location 📍: Gwen Liu Meeting Room 200, Toronto Public Library Northern District Branch, 40 Orchard View Blvd, Toronto, ON M4R 1B9

What You’ll Learn:

  • Define large language models (LLMs) and the transformer architecture; understand the history of their development, key concepts, and high-level details of their structure and function
  • Be introduced to Hugging Face and the transformers library and see applications thereof in code, using LLMs for generative text
  • Use the transformers library to work with generative text models such as GPT and LLaMA
  • Generate images using the latest cutting edge diffusion models and the Hugging Face diffusers library

Who Should Attend:

  • Beginners and non-technical individuals with some familiarity with programming, interested in learning LLMs and GenAI
  • Working professionals looking to build their skill set into LLMs
  • Students and aspiring data science professionals

What to Bring

  • Your laptop, power code and mouse
  • Notebook for taking notes
  • An active Gmail / Google account and/or a local python installation meeting the below requirements
  • Some basic knowledge of python or a similar programming language

Requirements

These notebooks can be run entirely in Google Colab. If you wish to run these locally in your own python install (or virtualenv / conda environment), you should install the following dependencies:

pip install transformers diffusers accelerate

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Authors

Myles Harrison, AI Consultant & Trainer at NLP from scratch.