'Foundations of Large Language Models' book posts v4 revision
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The arXiv book "Foundations of Large Language Models" by Tong Xiao and Jingbo Zhu has been updated to version 4, described by the authors as a set of minor corrections. The book has six main chapters covering pre-training, generative models, prompting, alignment, inference and reasoning, and is aimed at college students, professionals and NLP practitioners as a reference on foundational concepts rather than the full range of cutting-edge techniques.
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It offers a continually maintained, freely accessible reference for people who want a structured grounding in core LLM concepts.