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5 Books That Will Deepen Your Understanding of Large Language Models
5 Books That Will Deepen Your Understanding of Large Language Models
Check out these five books on building, fine-tuning, and deploying large language models.
# Introduction
The generative AI ecosystem moves fast, but the mathematics and architectures powering it are well-documented. The shift from classical natural language processing (NLP) to generative AI has changed what data professionals actually need to know. A few years ago, understanding recurrent neural networks or standard classification models was enough for most roles.
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