Generative AI has emerged in recent years as the transformational technology for the digital age, and has breathed new life into natural language processing (NLP). The specialisation course “LLMs: Generative AI for Engineers” follows the undeniable advances in the field of NLP, and its potential for increasing productivity in engineering.
In this context, the course presents large-scale language models (LLMs), as well as their training, optimisation and adjustment to the specific constraints of the applications to be developed.
Focusing on natural language processing applications, the course introduces the fundamental techniques for generating text and applying generative AI, LLMs in particular, following a ‘learning by doing’ approach, typical of engineering training and our data science courses.
This course is part of the Specialisation Programme “Data Science for Engineers” (DASH), as an elective, and this edition will be given in online format, through Zoom.
Objectives:
At the end of the program, trainees are expected to know the potential of applying natural language processing to textual documents. In particular, they should have the skills to:
- Explore the application potential of generative AI based on LLMs;
- Apply generative AI based on LLMs, following each of the stages of information discovery;
- Adapt LLMs to specific use cases by fine-tuning and optimising the model’s objective function;
- Maximise model performance through state-of-the-art training, tuning and optimisation, taking into account application-specific constraints.
Course information:
Start Date: March 18, 2025
End date: May 6, 2025
Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 5.30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Price: 1500€
Format: Online
Duration: 35 hours
