| Best Sellers Rank | #5,063 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Data Processing #1 in Computer Neural Networks #2 in Python Programming |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 247Reviews |
“The most understandable and comprehensive explanation of language models yet! Its unique and practical teaching style achieves a level of understanding you can’t get any other way.”
Cameron Wolfe, Senior Scientist, Netflix
“Sebastian combines deep knowledge with practical engineering skills and a knack for making complex ideas simple. This is the guide you need!”
Chip Huyen, author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering
“Definitive, up-to-date coverage. Highly recommended!”
Dr. Vahid Mirjalili, Senior Data Scientist, FM Global
Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) offers a practical, hands-on approach to understanding and constructing large language models (LLMs) from the ground up.
By guiding you through each stage—from data preparation and coding attention mechanisms to pretraining and fine-tuning—this book demystifies the inner workings of LLMs using Python and PyTorch.
Ideal for developers and machine learning enthusiasts, it empowers you to build a functional GPT-style model on a standard laptop, fostering a deeper comprehension of generative AI technologies.
Manning helps developers and tech professionals stay ahead in a fast-moving industry with expert-led books, videos, and projects. Learning never stops, but it’s hard to keep up, so we focus on content that’s practical, clear, and trusted. As an independent publisher, we adapt quickly, from pioneering early-access books to offering DRM-free eBooks. Our series, like "In Action" and "In a Month of Lunches", reflect a commitment to making complex topics accessible.
 LLMs in Production: From language models to successful products |  AI Agents in Action |  Natural Language Processing in Action, Second Edition |  Effective Conversational AI: Chatbots that work |  Data Analysis with LLMs: Text, tables, images and sound (In Action) |  Causal AI | |
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| Customer Reviews | 19 | 24 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 11 |
| Price | $50.66 | $48.99 | $59.99 | $57.13 | $38.39 | $51.86 |
| Level of proficiency | Intermediate | Intermediate | Intermediate | Intermediate | Intermediate | Advanced |
| About the reader | For data scientists and ML engineers. | For intermediate Python programmers. | For intermediate Python programmers. | For developers, engineers, and product managers. | For data scientists and data analysts. | For data scientists and machine learning engineers. |
| Special features | Includes liveBook with out built-in AI assistant. | Includes liveBook with out built-in AI assistant. | Includes liveBook with out built-in AI assistant. | Includes liveBook with out built-in AI assistant. | Includes liveBook with out built-in AI assistant. | Includes liveBook with out built-in AI assistant. |
| Pages | 456 | 344 | 688 | 328 | 232 | 520 |
