Building LLMs from Scratch

GDG on Campus King Abdulaziz University - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Explore the workings of Large Language Models in this hands-on workshop. Participants build models from scratch, learning about bigrams, embeddings, neural networks, self-attention, and the Transformer architecture. With interactive coding and visual aids, attendees will gain a solid understanding of modern LLMs and their training processes. Ideal for those eager to grasp foundational AI concepts.

Sep 21, 2:00 – 4:30 PM (UTC)

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Key themes

Tech Talk / MeetupWorkshop / hands-on session

About this event

Discover how Large Language Models work by building them step by step. Starting with a simple bigram language model, we'll introduce embeddings, neural networks, self-attention, and the Transformer architecture through interactive coding and visual explanations. By the end of the workshop, participants will have a clear understanding of the core concepts behind modern LLMs and how they are trained.

Speaker

  • Eman Elrefai

    Applied Scientist & NLP Researcher

Organizer

  • Ragad Mutwali

    Organizer