CS 685 is UMass Amherst's advanced natural language processing course, taught by Mohit Iyyer, covering modern NLP and large language models with a research orientation. The lectures are published as a free YouTube playlist.

Commenters call it a really good research-oriented course and say it covers pretty much everything needed to understand LLMs.

On Reddit (2)

1. Strongly recommendsIntraspeciesFeverr/learnmachinelearning2022in “Favorite NLP Tutorials?”

   Mohit iyyer's advanced NLP course (UMass) is a really good research oriented course https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWnsVgP6CzadI4-FT2Po4wsEK7MHCIQ-d

2. Recommendskrumb0yr/ExperiencedDevs2023in “Anyone with completely unrelated experience looking into learning LLMs/AI?”▲ 2

   Before getting into NLP it's a good idea to have a grasp on - linear algebra - multivariable calculus - probability and stats After that you can directly jump into learning NLP. The good thing is that the field has changed so much in the last 5 years that pretty much everything else before that is…

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