mlabonne/llm-course
Course to get into Large Language Models (LLMs) with roadmaps and Colab notebooks.
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Where it stands
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Ranks #230 of 2,841 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 8%).
The project lists 3 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a comprehensive free course with roadmaps and Colab notebooks to learn about large language models (LLMs) from fundamentals to application and deployment.
- Offers hands-on, interactive learning with ready-to-use Colab notebooks covering fine-tuning, quantization, model merging, and evaluation techniques for LLMs.
- Use for gaining foundational knowledge in mathematics, Python, and neural networks essential for understanding LLMs and machine learning.
- Use for learning advanced LLM building techniques including architecture, pre-training, fine-tuning, and optimization with practical code examples.
- Use for deploying and creating LLM-based applications with guides on quantization, model merging, and building chat interfaces using free cloud resources.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- No commits in the last six months (last push Feb 2026).
- No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
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From the README
The LLM course is divided into three parts:
For an interactive version of this course, I created an LLM assistant that will answer questions and test your knowledge in a personalized way on HuggingChat or ChatGPT.
A list of notebooks and articles I wrote about LLMs.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
9.7K+263
Open issues
92+7
Compared with peers in Education
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 4, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch | 68.7K | +3.5K | 75 | 3 days ago |
| byoungd/up | 68.6K | +1.3K | 35 | — |
| mnfst/awesome-free-llm-apis | 10.1K | +650 | 14 | — |
| CarterPerez-dev/Cybersecurity-Projects | 7.9K | +443 | 75 | — |
| cs341-illinois/coursebook | 3.7K | +29 | 75 | — |
| mlabonne/llm-course | 83.3K | +0 | 7 | — |
| Category median | 10.1K | +650 | 75 | — |
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