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Hands-On Small Language Models
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Hands-On Small Language Models

by Alex Thomas
January 2027
Intermediate to advanced
275 pages
1h 3m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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About the Author

Alex Thomas is a Principal Data Scientist at John Snow Labs. He uses natural language processing, machine learning, and knowledge graphs on clinical data, identity data, job data, biochemical data, and contract data. He was one of the original designers behind Spark NLP, and he’s currently working on measuring Large Language Models and their applications.

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