chapter one
1 Why tailoring LLM architectures matters
This chapter covers
- Why generic LLMs don’t work
- The model rearchitecting pipeline as solution
- Core techniques for building specialized models
- A roadmap to architecting
Large language models (LLMs) are trained on extensive text corpora spanning multiple languages and domains, resulting in models that can exceed hundreds of billions of parameters, even approaching a trillion. These models demonstrate broad capabilities across a wide range of tasks. These models can write poetry, analyze financial documents, generate code, or perform translations between different languages. This breadth of knowledge is the basis of their power, but also the source of their inefficiency when applied to specialized tasks. It consumes more time and resources than necessary.