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perceptron (MLP)\nMatrix multiplication implementation\nActivation functions (ReLU, GELU, Sigmoid)\n4.1.2 Training Neural Networks\nLoss functions\nGradient descent variants\nLearning rate scheduling\nBatch processing\n4.1.3 Regularization Techniques\nDropout\nBatch normalization\nWeight decay\nEarly stopping\n4.2 Sequence Models\n4.2.1 Recurrent Neural Networks\nVanilla RNNs\nBackpropagation through time\nVanishing gradient problem\nBidirectional RNNs\n4.2.2 LSTM and GRU\nLong Short-Term Memory\nGated Recurrent Units\nForget gates and memory cells\nSequence-to-sequence models\n4.2.3 Convolutional Networks\n1D convolutions for text\nPooling operations\nCNN architectures\nFeature maps and filters\n4.3 Attention Mechanisms\n4.3.1 Attention Fundamentals\nAttention intuition\nQuery, Key, Value matrices\nAttention scores and weights\nScaled dot-product attention\n4.3.2 Self-Attention\nSelf-attention mechanism\nMulti-head attention\nPositional encoding\nAttention visualization\n4.3.3 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Models\n5.3.1 Optimization Techniques\nAdamW optimizer\nLearning rate scheduling\nGradient clipping\nWeight initialization\n5.3.2 Scaling Considerations\nParameter scaling\nCompute scaling\nData scaling\nOptimal compute allocation\n5.3.3 Stability and Convergence\nTraining dynamics\nLoss spikes and recovery\nGradient monitoring\nDebugging techniques\nModule 6: Tokenization and Data Processing\nText preprocessing and representation\n6.1 Tokenization Fundamentals\n6.1.1 Basic Tokenization\nWhitespace tokenization\nPunctuation handling\nCase normalization\nUnicode considerations\n6.1.2 Subword Tokenization\nByte Pair Encoding (BPE)\nWordPiece tokenization\nSentencePiece\nUnigram tokenization\n6.1.3 MinBPE Implementation\nBPE algorithm from scratch\nMerge operations\nVocabulary building\nEncoding and decoding\n6.2 Advanced Tokenization\n6.2.1 Handling Special Cases\nOut-of-vocabulary words\nNumbers and dates\nCode and structured text\nMultilingual tokenization\n6.2.2 Tokenizer Training\nCorpus preparation\nVocabulary size selection\nSpecial tokens\nTokenizer evaluation\n6.2.3 Tokenization Trade-offs\nVocabulary size vs. sequence length\nCompression efficiency\nDownstream task performance\nComputational considerations\n6.3 Data Pipeline\n6.3.1 Data Loading\nEfficient data loading\nStreaming large datasets\nData sharding\nMemory management\n6.3.2 Data Preprocessing\nText cleaning\nDeduplication\nQuality filtering\nFormat standardization\n6.3.3 Synthetic Data Generation\nData augmentation\nSynthetic data creation\nCurriculum learning\nDomain adaptation\nModule 7: Optimization and Training\nAdvanced training techniques and optimization\n7.1 Optimization Algorithms\n7.1.1 Gradient Descent Variants\nSGD with momentum\nAdaGrad and AdaDelta\nRMSprop\nAdam and AdamW\n7.1.2 Advanced Optimizers\nLAMB optimizer\nLookahead optimizer\nShampoo optimizer\nSecond-order methods\n7.1.3 Learning Rate Scheduling\nStep decay\nCosine annealing\nWarm restarts\nCyclical learning rates\n7.2 Training Strategies\n7.2.1 Initialization Techniques\nXavier/Glorot initialization\nHe initialization\nLayer-wise initialization\nTransfer learning initialization\n7.2.2 Regularization Methods\nDropout variants\nDropConnect\nStochastic depth\nMixup and CutMix\n7.2.3 Curriculum Learning\nEasy-to-hard scheduling\nData ordering strategies\nMulti-task learning\nProgressive training\n7.3 Training Monitoring\n7.3.1 Metrics and Logging\nLoss monitoring\nGradient norms\nLearning rate tracking\nModel checkpointing\n7.3.2 Debugging Training\nGradient flow analysis\nActivation monitoring\nWeight distribution analysis\nConvergence diagnostics\n7.3.3 Hyperparameter Tuning\nGrid and random search\nBayesian optimization\nPopulation-based training\nMulti-objective optimization\nModule 8: Efficient Computing\nHardware acceleration and optimization\n8.1 Device Optimization\n8.1.1 CPU vs GPU Computing\nCPU architecture\nGPU parallelism\nMemory hierarchies\nCompute vs memory bound\n8.1.2 GPU 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