Large Language Models | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/category/artificial-intelligence/large-language-models/ Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:44:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Large Language Models | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/category/artificial-intelligence/large-language-models/ 32 32 Topic Model Labelling with LLMs https://towardsdatascience.com/topic-model-labelling-with-llms/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:44:18 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606581 Python tutorial for reproducible labeling of cutting-edge topic models with GPT4-o-mini.

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]]> Are You Being Unfair to LLMs? https://towardsdatascience.com/are-you-being-unfair-to-llms/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:40:50 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606563 They may deserve better.

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]]> Hitchhiker’s Guide to RAG: From Tiny Files to Tolstoy with OpenAI’s API and LangChain https://towardsdatascience.com/hitchhikers-guide-to-rag-from-tiny-files-to-tolstoy-with-openais-api-and-langchain/ Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:56:46 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606560 Scaling a simple RAG pipeline from simple notes to full books

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]]> Evaluation-Driven Development for LLM-Powered Products: Lessons from Building in Healthcare https://towardsdatascience.com/evaluation-driven-development-for-llm-powered-products-lessons-from-building-in-healthcare/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:58:58 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606546 How metrics and monitoring combine with human expertise to build trustworthy AI in healthcare.

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]]> Worried About AI? Use It to Your Advantage https://towardsdatascience.com/worried-about-ai-use-it-to-your-advantage/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606557 This week, we focus on the future of data science and the opportunities that can arise amid uncertainty.

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]]> Work Data Is the Next Frontier for GenAI https://towardsdatascience.com/work-data-is-the-next-frontier-for-genai/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:04:32 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606542 9 reasons why work data is the single most valuable data source for LLM training, uniquely capable of propelling LLM performance to unprecedented heights.

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]]> Recap of all types of LLM Agents https://towardsdatascience.com/recap-of-all-types-of-llm-agents/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:26:24 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606540 Regular, ReAct, Chain-of-Thought, Reflexion, ToT, GoT, PoT

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]]> How to Fine-Tune Small Language Models to Think with Reinforcement Learning https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-finetune-small-language-models-to-think-with-reinforcement-learning/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 01:59:20 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606531 A visual tour and from-scratch guide to train GRPO reasoning models in PyTorch

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]]> Fairness Pruning: Precision Surgery to Reduce Bias in LLMs https://towardsdatascience.com/fairness-pruning-precision-surgery-to-reduce-bias-in-llms/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 23:29:08 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606492 From unjustified shootings to neutral stories: how to fix toxic narratives with selective pruning

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]]> June Must-Reads: AI Agents, Dashboards, and More https://towardsdatascience.com/june-must-reads-ai-agents-dashboards-and-more/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606559 A selection of our most-read and -shared articles of the past month.

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]]> Software Engineering in the LLM Era https://towardsdatascience.com/software-engineering-in-the-llm-era/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:27:46 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606485 On growing new software engineers, even when it’s inefficient

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]]> From Pixels to Plots https://towardsdatascience.com/from-pixels-to-plots/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:53:16 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606458 How I built an AI-powered prototype to turn images into insights

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]]> Become a Better Data Scientist with These Prompt Engineering Tips and Tricks https://towardsdatascience.com/become-a-better-data-scientist-with-these-prompt-engineering-hacks/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:54:37 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606455 Part 1: prompt engineering for planning, cleaning, and EDA

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]]> A Developer’s Guide to Building Scalable AI: Workflows vs Agents https://towardsdatascience.com/a-developers-guide-to-building-scalable-ai-workflows-vs-agents/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:38:23 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606443 A practical guide to choosing between AI agents and workflows for production systems, covering the hidden costs, architectural trade-offs, and decision framework that can save you thousands in deployment mistakes. Includes real-world examples and a scoring system to determine which approach fits your specific use case.

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]]> AI Agent with Multi-Session Memory https://towardsdatascience.com/ai-agent-with-multi-session-memory/ Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:12:47 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606426 Build from scratch using only Python & Ollama (no GPU, no APIKEY)

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]]> Use OpenAI Whisper for Automated Transcriptions https://towardsdatascience.com/use-openai-whisper-for-automated-transcriptions/ Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:34:40 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606422 Streamline your computer interactions using OpenAI's Whisper model

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]]> How to Train a Chatbot Using RAG and Custom Data https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-train-a-chatbot-using-rag-and-custom-data/ Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:21:53 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606413 Retrieval-Augmented Generation made easy with Llama

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]]> Why Your Next LLM Might Not Have A Tokenizer https://towardsdatascience.com/why-your-next-llm-might-not-have-a-tokenizer/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:17:49 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606399 The Tokenizer Has Been a Necessary Evil, but This Radical Approach Shows That It Might Not Be Necessary Anymore.

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]]> Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, Explained Simply https://towardsdatascience.com/explained-simply-reinforcement-learning-from-human-feedback/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:31:07 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606394 The one technique that made ChatGPT so smart

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]]> LLM-as-a-Judge: A Practical Guide https://towardsdatascience.com/llm-as-a-judge-a-practical-guide/ Thu, 19 Jun 2025 19:03:29 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606372 How to Scale LLM Evaluations Beyond Manual Review

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