A Comprehensive Guide to Leverage Generative AI in the Modern Enterprise KEY FEATURES ● Gain a comprehensive understanding of LLMs within the framework of Generative AI, from foundational concepts to advanced applications. ● Dive into practical exercises and real-world applications, accompanied by detailed code walkthroughs in Python. ● Explore LLMOps with a dedicated focus on ensuring trustworthy AI and best practices for deploying, managing, and maintaining LLMs in enterprise settings. ● Prioritize the ethical and responsible use of LLMs, with an emphasis on building models that adhere to principles of fairness, transparency, and accountability, fostering trust in AI technologies. DESCRIPTION “Mastering Large Language Models with Python” is an indispensable resource that offers a comprehensive exploration of Large Language Models (LLMs), providing the essential knowledge to leverage these transformative AI models effectively. From unraveling the intricacies of LLM architecture to practical applications like code generation and AI-driven recommendation systems, readers will gain valuable insights into implementing LLMs in diverse projects. Covering both open-source and proprietary LLMs, the book delves into foundational concepts and advanced techniques, empowering professionals to harness the full potential of these models. Detailed discussions on quantization techniques for efficient deployment, operational strategies with LLMOps, and ethical considerations ensure a well-rounded understanding of LLM implementation. Through real-world case studies, code snippets, and practical examples, readers will navigate the complexities of LLMs with confidence, paving the way for innovative solutions and organizational growth. Whether you seek to deepen your understanding, drive impactful applications, or lead AI-driven initiatives, this book equips you with the tools and insights needed to excel in the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN ● In-depth study of LLM architecture and its versatile applications across industries. ● Harness open-source and proprietary LLMs to craft innovative solutions. ● Implement LLM APIs for a wide range of tasks spanning natural language processing, audio analysis, and visual recognition. ● Optimize LLM deployment through techniques such as quantization and operational strategies like LLMOps, ensuring efficient and scalable model usage. ● Master prompt engineering techniques to fine-tune LLM outputs, enhancing quality and relevance for diverse use cases. ● Navigate the complex landscape of ethical AI development, prioritizing responsible practices to drive impactful technology adoption and advancement. WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR? This book is tailored for software engineers, data scientists, AI researchers, and technology leaders with a foundational understanding of machine learning concepts and programming. It's ideal for those looking to deepen their knowledge of Large Language Models and their practical applications in the field of AI. If you aim to explore LLMs extensively for implementing inventive solutions or spearheading AI-driven projects, this book is tailored to your needs. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. The Basics of Large Language Models and Their Applications 2. Demystifying Open-Source Large Language Models 3. Closed-Source Large Language Models 4. LLM APIs for Various Large Language Model Tasks 5. Integrating Cohere API in Google Sheets 6. Dynamic Movie Recommendation Engine Using LLMs 7. Document-and Web-based QA Bots with Large Language Models 8. LLM Quantization Techniques and Implementation 9. Fine-tuning and Evaluation of LLMs 10. Recipes for Fine-Tuning and Evaluating LLMs 11. LLMOps - Operationalizing LLMs at Scale 12. Implementing LLMOps in Practice Using MLflow on Databricks 13. Mastering the Art of Prompt Engineering 14. Prompt Engineering Essentials and Design Patterns 15. Ethical Considerations and Regulatory Frameworks for LLMs 16. Towards Trustworthy Generative AI (A Novel Framework Inspired by Symbolic Reasoning) Index

Do not just talk AI, build it: Your guide to LLM application development KEY FEATURES ● Explore NLP basics and LLM fundamentals, including essentials, challenges, and model types. ● Learn data handling and pre-processing techniques for efficient data management. ● Understand neural networks overview, including NN basics, RNNs, CNNs, and transformers. ● Strategies and examples for harnessing LLMs. DESCRIPTION Transform your business landscape with the formidable prowess of large language models (LLMs). The book provides you with practical insights, guiding you through conceiving, designing, and implementing impactful LLM-driven applications. This book explores NLP fundamentals like applications, evolution, components and language models. It teaches data pre-processing, neural networks , and specific architectures like RNNs, CNNs, and transformers. It tackles training challenges, advanced techniques such as GANs, meta-learning, and introduces top LLM models like GPT-3 and BERT. It also covers prompt engineering. Finally, it showcases LLM applications and emphasizes responsible development and deployment. With this book as your compass, you will navigate the ever-evolving landscape of LLM technology, staying ahead of the curve with the latest advancements and industry best practices. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Grasp fundamentals of natural language processing (NLP) applications. ● Explore advanced architectures like transformers and their applications. ● Master techniques for training large language models effectively. ● Implement advanced strategies, such as meta-learning and self-supervised learning. ● Learn practical steps to build custom language model applications. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is tailored for those aiming to master large language models, including seasoned researchers, data scientists, developers, and practitioners in natural language processing (NLP). TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing 2. Introduction to Language Models 3. Data Collection and Pre-processing for Language Modeling 4. Neural Networks in Language Modeling 5. Neural Network Architectures for Language Modeling 6. Transformer-based Models for Language Modeling 7. Training Large Language Models 8. Advanced Techniques for Language Modeling 9. Top Large Language Models 10. Building First LLM App 11. Applications of LLMs 12. Ethical Considerations 13. Prompt Engineering 14. Future of LLMs and Its Impact

Take a problem-solving approach to learning all about transformers and get up and running in no time by implementing methodologies that will build the future of NLP Key Features Explore quick prototyping with up-to-date Python libraries to create effective solutions to industrial problems Solve advanced NLP problems such as named-entity recognition, information extraction, language generation, and conversational AI Monitor your model's performance with the help of BertViz, exBERT, and TensorBoard Book DescriptionTransformer-based language models have dominated natural language processing (NLP) studies and have now become a new paradigm. With this book, you'll learn how to build various transformer-based NLP applications using the Python Transformers library. The book gives you an introduction to Transformers by showing you how to write your first hello-world program. You'll then learn how a tokenizer works and how to train your own tokenizer. As you advance, you'll explore the architecture of autoencoding models, such as BERT, and autoregressive models, such as GPT. You'll see how to train and fine-tune models for a variety of natural language understanding (NLU) and natural language generation (NLG) problems, including text classification, token classification, and text representation. This book also helps you to learn efficient models for challenging problems, such as long-context NLP tasks with limited computational capacity. You'll also work with multilingual and cross-lingual problems, optimize models by monitoring their performance, and discover how to deconstruct these models for interpretability and explainability. Finally, you'll be able to deploy your transformer models in a production environment. By the end of this NLP book, you'll have learned how to use Transformers to solve advanced NLP problems using advanced models.What you will learn Explore state-of-the-art NLP solutions with the Transformers library Train a language model in any language with any transformer architecture Fine-tune a pre-trained language model to perform several downstream tasks Select the right framework for the training, evaluation, and production of an end-to-end solution Get hands-on experience in using TensorBoard and Weights & Biases Visualize the internal representation of transformer models for interpretability Who this book is for This book is for deep learning researchers, hands-on NLP practitioners, as well as ML/NLP educators and students who want to start their journey with Transformers. Beginner-level machine learning knowledge and a good command of Python will help you get the best out of this book.

With an emphasis on clarity, style, and performance, author J.T. Wolohan expertly guides you through implementing a functionally-influenced approach to Python coding. You'll get familiar with Python's functional built-ins like the functools operator and itertools modules, as well as the toolz library. Mastering Large Datasets teaches you to write easily readable, easily scalable Python code that can efficiently process large volumes of structured and unstructured data. By the end of this comprehensive guide, you'll have a solid grasp on the tools and methods that will take your code beyond the laptop and your data science career to the next level! Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

Get hands-on experience in creating state-of-the-art reinforcement learning agents using TensorFlow and RLlib to solve complex real-world business and industry problems with the help of expert tips and best practices Key FeaturesUnderstand how large-scale state-of-the-art RL algorithms and approaches workApply RL to solve complex problems in marketing, robotics, supply chain, finance, cybersecurity, and moreExplore tips and best practices from experts that will enable you to overcome real-world RL challengesBook Description Reinforcement learning (RL) is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) used for creating self-learning autonomous agents. Building on a strong theoretical foundation, this book takes a practical approach and uses examples inspired by real-world industry problems to teach you about state-of-the-art RL. Starting with bandit problems, Markov decision processes, and dynamic programming, the book provides an in-depth review of the classical RL techniques, such as Monte Carlo methods and temporal-difference learning. After that, you will learn about deep Q-learning, policy gradient algorithms, actor-critic methods, model-based methods, and multi-agent reinforcement learning. Then, you'll be introduced to some of the key approaches behind the most successful RL implementations, such as domain randomization and curiosity-driven learning. As you advance, you’ll explore many novel algorithms with advanced implementations using modern Python libraries such as TensorFlow and Ray’s RLlib package. You’ll also find out how to implement RL in areas such as robotics, supply chain management, marketing, finance, smart cities, and cybersecurity while assessing the trade-offs between different approaches and avoiding common pitfalls. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered how to train and deploy your own RL agents for solving RL problems. What you will learnModel and solve complex sequential decision-making problems using RLDevelop a solid understanding of how state-of-the-art RL methods workUse Python and TensorFlow to code RL algorithms from scratchParallelize and scale up your RL implementations using Ray's RLlib packageGet in-depth knowledge of a wide variety of RL topicsUnderstand the trade-offs between different RL approachesDiscover and address the challenges of implementing RL in the real worldWho this book is for This book is for expert machine learning practitioners and researchers looking to focus on hands-on reinforcement learning with Python by implementing advanced deep reinforcement learning concepts in real-world projects. Reinforcement learning experts who want to advance their knowledge to tackle large-scale and complex sequential decision-making problems will also find this book useful. Working knowledge of Python programming and deep learning along with prior experience in reinforcement learning is required.

This is a tutorial-driven and practical, but well-grounded book showcasing good Machine Learning practices. There will be an emphasis on using existing technologies instead of showing how to write your own implementations of algorithms. This book is a scenario-based, example-driven tutorial. By the end of the book you will have learnt critical aspects of Machine Learning Python projects and experienced the power of ML-based systems by actually working on them.This book primarily targets Python developers who want to learn about and build Machine Learning into their projects, or who want to pro.

Once you've mastered the basics of Python, how do you skill up to the top 1%? How do you focus your learning time on topics that yield the most benefit for production engineering and data teams—without getting distracted by info of little real-world use? This book answers these questions and more. Based on author Aaron Maxwell's software engineering career in Silicon Valley, this unique book focuses on the Python first principles that act to accelerate everything else: the 5% of programming knowledge that makes the remaining 95% fall like dominos. It's also this knowledge that helps you become an exceptional Python programmer, fast. Learn how to think like a Pythonista: explore advanced Pythonic thinking Create lists, dicts, and other data structures using a high-level, readable, and maintainable syntax Explore higher-order function abstractions that form the basis of Python libraries Examine Python's metaprogramming tool for priceless patterns of code reuse Master Python's error model and learn how to leverage it in your own code Learn the more potent and advanced tools of Python's object system Take a deep dive into Python's automated testing and TDD Learn how Python logging helps you troubleshoot and debug more quickly