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Research Reading: Prototyping Conversational LLM’s With Alpaca

Published: July 15, 2023; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa

LLM’s have taken over the world, and their usability has had an unprecedented rate of increase in the last 6 months.

The Alpaca model developed by Stanford’s computer science department represents an affordable way to turn pre-trained research LLM’s into conversational chatbots that are on par with commercial models.

The project outlines a lot of the key aspects of building a chatbot:

• How to generate and format the data necessary to train everything
• Scripts for training the model with built-in parameters
• Boilerplate code for serving models over Huggingface with Gradio

It’s quickly become the new standard for prototyping LLM models.

This talk is designed to give us a hands-on walk through the project and take a deep dive through its GitHub repo to dissect its most important parts.

This is meant to be a fast-acting introduction to the world of research LLM’s, and prompt an open-ended discussion about the current state of language models.

The homepage for the project can be found here

The GitHub repo can be found here

Location: 330 7th Ave 2nd floor

Time: 7:00-8:30 pm EDT

Free!

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