Large Language Models: Foundations, Fine-Tuning and Prompt Tuning’

Catalog of Télécom SudParis courses

Code

IGFE CSC 7020

Level

M2

Graduate

Graduate

Semester

Fall

Domain

Informatique

Program

Programme Ingénieur

Language

Anglais/English

ECTS Credits

4

Class hours

21

Program Manager(s)

Department

  • Réseaux et Services Multimédia Mobiles

Organisation

Cours/TD/TP/projet/examen :

Content

- Introduction to Large Language Models
- Tokenization and data pre-processing
- Training objectives (language modeling, masked language modeling, causal LM)
- Training pipelines and optimization techniques
- Evaluation metrics for LLMs
- Fine-Tuning LLMs
- Case studies on task-specific adaptation
- Prompt Engineering and Prompt Tuning
- Building a small transformer model
- Multimodal LLMs
- Task-specific use cases for LLMs

Assessment formula

14 hours coursework, 12 hours practice
Project, Practical session grading, Short written quiz/exam