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A Visual Guide to Mamba and State Space Models
An Alternative to Transformers for Language Modeling
 • Maarten Grootendorst
A Visual Guide to Quantization
Exploring memory-efficient techniques for LLMs
 • Maarten Grootendorst
A Visual Guide to LLM Agents
Exploring the main components of Single- and Multi-Agents
 • Maarten Grootendorst
A Visual Guide to Mixture of Experts (MoE)
Demystifying the role of MoE in Large Language Models
 • Maarten Grootendorst
A Visual Guide to Reasoning LLMs
Exploring Test-Time Compute Techniques and DeepSeek-R1
 • Maarten Grootendorst
The Story Behind the "RAG Pack"
It all started with a course...
 • Maarten Grootendorst
Which Quantization Method is Right for You? (GPTQ vs. GGUF vs. AWQ)
Exploring Pre-Quantized Large Language Models
 • Maarten Grootendorst
Book Update #2 - Hands-On Large Language Models
A Christmas update filled with visuals!
 • Maarten Grootendorst
Topic Modeling with Llama 2
Create easily interpretable topics with Large Language Models
 • Maarten Grootendorst
Introducing KeyLLM — Keyword Extraction with LLMs
Use KeyLLM, KeyBERT, and Mistral 7B to extract keywords from your data
 • Maarten Grootendorst
3 Ways To Improve Your Large Language Model
Enhancing the power of Llama 2
 • Maarten Grootendorst
BERTopic: What Is So Special About v0.16?
Exploring Zero-Shot Topic Modeling, Model Merging, and LLMs
 • Maarten Grootendorst
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