machine-learning-book VS LLMs-from-scratch

Sorry, in that case I would rather recommend a dedicated RL book. The RL part in LLMs will be very specific to LLMs, and I will only cover what's absolutely relevant in terms of background info. I do have a longish intro chapter on RL in my other general ML/DL book (https://github.com/rasbt/machine-learning-book/tree/main/ch1...) but like others said, I would recommend a dedicated RL book in your case.

All the code examples are available here: https://github.com/rasbt/machine-learning-book

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...)