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URL:https://cds.iisc.ac.in/events/cds-kiac-weekend-lecture-series-a-gentle
 -introduction-to-large-language-models/
SUMMARY:CDS-KIAC Weekend Lecture Series: A Gentle Introduction to Large Lan
 guage Models
DESCRIPTION:Professor Danish Pruthi is offering weekend lectures on large l
 anguage models\, starting on 8 March 2025\, on three consecutive Saturdays
 . All are welcome to attend the lectures! Registration is mandatory. The d
 etails are as follows.\n\nDescription of the course: A Gentle Introductio
 n to Large Language Models\n\nWe interact with language models and deriva
 tes\, such as ChatGPT\, on a daily basis (at times\, unknowingly). Such mo
 dels answer the questions we ask\, autocomplete words we are likely to typ
 e\, help translate text from languages we don’t know\, and most importan
 tly\, complete our assignments and homework.  This short course will gen
 tly introduce language models\, starting with N-gram models building all t
 he way up to transformers\, and how they are pre-trained and aligned to b
 e safe.\n\n 	Module 1: N-gram language models\n 	Module 2: Recurrent neura
 l networks\n 	Module 3: Transformers\n 	Module 4: Pre-training\n 	Module 5
 : Post-training and alignment\n\nDate and time:\n\n08 March 2025 (10:00-11
 :30 AM and 12:00-01:30 PM)\n\n15 March 2025 (10:00-11:30 AM and 12:00-01:3
 0 PM)\n\n22 March 2025 (10:00-11:30 AM)\n\nVenue: #102\, Department of Co
 mputational and Data Sciences\, IISc/online\n\nRegistration form: https:/
 /forms.office.com/r/SE8iVzHaPm\n\nBiography of the instructor: Danish Pru
 thi is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc)\, 
 Bengaluru. He received his PhD from the School of Computer Science at Carn
 egie Mellon University. He is broadly interested in the areas of natural l
 anguage processing (NLP) and deep learning\, with a focus towards inclusiv
 e development and evaluation of AI models. He completed his Bachelor’s d
 egree in Computer Science from BITS Pilani\, Pilani. He is also a recipien
 t of the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellowship\, Siebel Scholars
 hip\, CMU Presidential Fellowship\, and industry awards from Google and Ad
 obe Inc. Until recently\, his legal name was only Danish—an ‘edge case
 ’ for many deployed NLP systems\, leading to airport quagmires and\, in 
 equal parts\, funny anecdotes.\n\n
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