mlabonne

    mlabonne/llm-course

    Course to get into Large Language Models (LLMs) with roadmaps and Colab notebooks.

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    758 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 10, 2026
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    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.

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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.

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    • No commits in the last six months (last push Feb 2026).
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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.

    Excerpt from the mlabonne/llm-course README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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