Most people will waste this weekend.
Don’t be one of them.
Stanford's Autumn 2025 Transformers & LLMs course. 9 lectures. Free.
While others scroll, you could understand how Flash Attention achieves 3x speedup, how LoRA cuts fine-tuning costs by 90%, and how MoE makes models efficient.
➕ What's covered:
➡️ Lecture 1: Transformer Fundamentals
→ Tokenization and word representation
→ Self-attention mechanism explained
→ Complete transformer architecture
→ Detailed implementation example
➡️ Lecture 2: Advanced Transformer Techniques
→ Position embeddings (RoPE, ALiBi, T5 bias)
→ Layer normalization and sparse attention
→ BERT deep dive and finetuning
→ Extensions of BERT
➡️ Lecture 3: LLMs & Inference Optimization
→ Mixture of Experts (MoE) explained
→ Decoding strategies (greedy, beam search, sampling) → Prompting and in-context learning
→ Chain-of-thought reasoning
→ Inference optimizations (KV cache, PagedAttention)
➡️ Lecture 4: LLM Training & Fine-tuning
→ Pretraining and scaling laws (Chinchilla law)
→ Training optimizations (ZeRO, model parallelism)
→ Flash Attention for 3x speedup
→ Quantization and mixed precision
→ Parameter-efficient finetuning (LoRA, QLoRA)
➡️ Lecture 5: LLM Tuning
→ Preference tuning
→ RLHF overview
→ Reward modeling
→ RL approaches (PPO and variants)
→ DPO
➡️ Lecture 6: LLM Reasoning
→ Reasoning models
→ RL for reasoning
→ GRPO
→ Scaling
➡️ Lecture 7: Agentic LLMs
→ Retrieval-augmented generation
→ Advanced RAG techniques
→ Function calling
→ Agents
→ ReAct framework
➡️ Lecture 8: LLM Evaluation
→ LLM-as-a-judge overview
→Best practices and benefits
→Biases and pitfalls
➡️ Lecture 9: Recap & Trending topics
From Stanford Online:
Rigorous instruction. Latest techniques. Free access.
Perfect for:
→ ML engineers building with LLMs
→ AI engineers understanding transformers
→ Researchers working on language models
→ Anyone learning beyond API calls
This weekend: learn the techniques that separate good engineers from great ones.
(I will put the playlist in the comments.)
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