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Build a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch using PyTorch step by step

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# LLM From Scratch Guide

## Overview

LLMs-from-scratch is a comprehensive educational repository with over 87,000 stars on GitHub that teaches you how to build a ChatGPT-like large language model from the ground up using PyTorch. Created by Sebastian Raschka, a machine learning researcher and author, the project provides a complete pipeline covering data preparation, tokenization, attention mechanisms, pretraining, and instruction finetuning.

Unlike tutorials that treat LLMs as black boxes, this project demystifies every component by walking through the full implementation. Each chapter corresponds to a Jupyter notebook with clear explanations, diagrams, and runnable code. The repository accompanies the book "Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)" and serves as a standalone learning resource for researchers and engineers who want deep understanding of transformer-based language models.

The project is particularly valuable for academic researchers who need to understand the internals of LLMs for their own research, whether that involves modifying architectures, running ablation studies, or developing domain-specific language models for scientific applications.

## Installation and Setup

Clone the repository and set up a Python environment with the required dependencies:
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