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raiyanyahya/how-to-train-your-gpt

How-to-Train-Your-GPT raiyanyahya/how-to-train-your-gpt is an MIT 12-chapter educational guide that walks a reader through building a modern LLM from absolute scratch in Python with every line commented and explained like the reader is five — 7,500+ lines of Python implementing a LLaMA-3-style architecture (RMSNorm, SwiGLU, RoPE, GQA), 27 topic explainers covering attention, multi-head attention,

Score8.0
Popularity2257.0
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TierGold
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Usefulness8.4
Novelty10.0
Momentum10.0
Maturity8.8
Open-source/build7.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential8.7
Setup ease6.5

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Useful for self-learners, students, ML bootcamp learners, working engineers pivoting into ML, instructors who want a step-by-step LLM-from-scratch curriculum, ML researchers who want to refresh on the architecture layer before reading papers, and any operator who has read the attention-is-all-you-need paper twice and still does not feel like they understand multi-head attention, because How-to-Tra

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