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Generative AI with Python and PyTorch

You're reading from Generative AI with Python and PyTorch Navigating the AI frontier with LLMs, Stable Diffusion, and next-gen AI applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835884447

Length 450 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

PyTorch

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Authors (2):

Joseph Babcock

Raghav Bali

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Generative AI: Drawing Data from Models

2. Building Blocks of Deep Neural Networks FREE CHAPTER

3. The Rise of Methods for Text Generation

4. NLP 2.0: Using Transformers to Generate Text

5. LLM Foundations

6. Open-Source LLMs

7. Prompt Engineering

8. LLM Toolbox

9. LLM Optimization Techniques

10. Emerging Applications in Generative AI

11. Neural Networks Using VAEs

12. Image Generation with GANs

13. Style Transfer with GANs

14. Deepfakes with GANs

15. Diffusion Models and AI Art

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

17. Index

LLM Foundations

It might feel like Large Language Models (LLMs) have dominated the AI landscape for a long time, but in reality, it’s only been a couple of years. The AI craze truly took off when OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022, reaching a million users within just a week¹. This was a remarkable feat—especially considering the closest comparison is Instagram, which took eight weeks to hit a million downloads². The previous most pivotal moment in AI came in 2012, when AlexNet won the ImageNet competition³, though that breakthrough mostly resonated within academic circles.

In this chapter, we will expand on our understanding of NLP concepts and explore what sets LLMs apart from the models we’ve discussed so far. Specifically, we will cover:

A brief recap of transformer architectures
The LLM training setup and the role of InstructGPT
Hands-on exercises to apply these learnings

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Authors (2)

Joseph Babcock

Joseph Babcock

Joseph Babcock has spent over a decade working with big data and AI in the e-commerce, digital streaming, and quantitative finance domains. Throughout his career, he has worked on recommender systems, petabyte-scale cloud data pipelines, A/B testing, causal inference, and time series analysis. He completed his PhD studies at Johns Hopkins University, applying machine learning to drug discovery and genomics.

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Raghav Bali

Raghav Bali

Raghav Bali is a Staff Data Scientist at Delivery Hero, a leading food delivery service headquartered in Berlin, Germany. With 12+ years of expertise, he specializes in research and development of enterprise-level solutions leveraging Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Recommendation Engines for practical business applications. Besides his professional endeavors, Raghav is an esteemed mentor and an accomplished public speaker. He has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed papers and authored multiple well received books. Additionally, he holds co-inventor credits on multiple patents in healthcare, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing.

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