AI books: Build a Reasoning Model, Large Language Model (From Scratch), by Sebastian Raschka PhD

Sebastian Raschka - Manning author

Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) - Sebastian Raschka

• Plan and code all the parts of an LLM
• Prepare a dataset suitable for LLM training
• Fine-tune LLMs for text classification and with your own data
• Use human feedback to ensure your LLM follows instructions
• Load pretrained weights into an LLM

Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch) - Sebastian Raschka

• Implement core reasoning improvements for LLMs
• Evaluate models using judgment-based and benchmark-based methods
• Improve reasoning without updating model weights
• Use reinforcement learning to integrate external tools like calculators
• Apply distillation techniques to learn from larger reasoning models
• Understand the full reasoning model development pipeline