LLMs-from-scratch VS llm-classifier

https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-large-language-model-f...

The attention mechanism we implement in this book* is specific to LLMs in terms of the text inputs, but it's fundamentally the same attention mechanism that is used in vision transformers. The only difference is that in LLMs, you turn text into tokens, and convert these tokens into vector embeddings that go into an LLM. In vision transformers, instead of regarding images as tokens, you use an image patch as a token and turn those into vector embeddings (a bit hard to explain without visuals here). In both text or vision context, it's the same attention mechanism, and it both cases it receives vector embeddings.

(*Chapter 3, already submitted last week and should be online in the MEAP soon, in the meantime the code along with the notes is also available here: https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/blob/main/ch03/01...)

We do this for the null hypothesis - is uses an LLM to bootstrap a binary classifier - which handles null easily

https://github.com/lamini-ai/llm-classifier

LLMs introduced zero-shot learning, or “prompt engineering” which is drastically easier to use and more effective than labeling data.

You can also retrofit “prompt engineering” onto good old fashion ML like text classifiers. I wrote a library to do just that here: https://github.com/lamini-ai/llm-classifier

IMO, it’s a short matter of time before this takes over all of what used to be called “deep learning”.