Thursday, October 23, 2025

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

  • 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