Academic Catalog

AIX7862 PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

Course Code: 8877862
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(2-2)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course explores the foundations and development of LLMs. tracing their progression from recurrent neural networks and the original Transformer architecture to instruction tuning and multimodal model extensions. Emphasizing both theoretical principles and practical methodologies. the course equips students with the knowledge and skilis required to understand. adapt. and deploy LLM-based systems in research and real-world production environments.