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# LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS: A HANDS-ON APPROACH (3:1)

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# CCE-PROFICIENCE MAY – JULY 2026

**Duration**

3 months May -July 2026

**Schedule**

Wednesday and Friday

7PM to 8:30 PM

Lab timings: Tuesday and Thursday (7:00 PM 8.30 PM).

**Course offered**

Online

**Exam Duration**

31 July to 9 August 2026

Classes Start

~4 May 2026

# Objectives of the Course

This course provides hands-on engineering of Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on the challenges of building, optimizing, and deploying them. Students will cover the entire lifecycle from: Transformer foundations, GPU scaling,Inference optimization,Fine-tuning Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) Agentic tool use,Deployment on edge devices, Students will learn through real-world case studies, labs, and projects. By the end, students will be equipped to design production-grade LLM systems for both research and industry applications.

# Syllabus

Transformer Foundations, GPUs, Pretraining basics, inference optimization, quantization, fine-tuning, instruction tuning and alignment, reasoning, and alignment, retrieval-augmented generation, tool-use and agents, multimodal LLMs, evaluation and edge deployment.

# Minimum Qualification required by the candidates

#### B.E/B.Tech/ M.Sc . (Computer Science)/ MCA

# Pre-requisites

Basics of NLP , Deep Learning, Python Programming

# Software/Hardware to be used for the Lab

Python, CUDA, Google Colab, AWS Sagemaker (Open source software’s)

# Reference Books

- Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation By: Jay Alammar,
- Maarten Grootendorst Large Language Models: A Deep Dive Bridging Theory and Practice By Uday Kamath et al
- Al Engineering by Chip Huyen
- Various technical blogs

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# Know The Facilitators

#### Yoginder Kumar Negi

Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC),

Indian Institute of Science, IISc Bangalore

# Course Fee

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| **Particulars** | **Amount** |
| Course Fee | 20,000 |
| Application Fee | 300 |
| GST@18% | 3,654 |
| Total | 23,954 |