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

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

Know The Facilitators

Yoginder Kumar Negi

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