Before starting Stanford’s CME 295.
A quick way to decide whether this Transformers and LLM course is your next step.
A new editorial note for this website, based on the linked public source. The English version is a translation.
If you’re looking for a more technical path into Transformers and LLMs, Stanford’s CME 295 is worth looking at.
The official course page names calculus, linear algebra and basic machine learning as useful background. It also links to a public syllabus and an illustrated cheatsheet.
Before you press play
Can you follow matrix operations, the idea of a gradient and the difference between training and inference? If some of those feel unfamiliar, give yourself time to review them.
You don’t have to understand everything before beginning. But knowing which parts need extra work can make a technical course much less frustrating.
Ali Rashedi