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Generative AI: Fine-Tuning LLMs and Diffusion Models

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Generative AI: Fine-Tuning LLMs and Diffusion Models

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

2 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Build decoder-only transformer pipelines with KV caching optimizations

  • Fine-tune 7B+ LLMs using LoRA and QLoRA on consumer GPUs

  • Configure diffusers pipelines with ControlNet for controllable images

  • Train, export, and evaluate a domain-specialized LLM adapter

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May 2026

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16 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 4 modules in this course

Explore the inner workings of decoder-only transformer architectures, including token flow, self-attention, causal masking, and KV cache optimization.

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9 videos3 readings4 assignments

Master parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques including LoRA, QLoRA with 4-bit quantization, and building supervised fine-tuning pipelines using peft and trl.

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9 videos3 readings4 assignments

Understand the forward and reverse diffusion processes, configure diffusers pipelines with various schedulers, and apply ControlNets for conditioned image generation.

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9 videos3 readings4 assignments

Apply all course concepts in a capstone project building a specialist LLM through dataset creation, QLoRA training, and adapter exporting with rigorous evaluation.

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9 videos3 readings4 assignments

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