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# The History and Development of LLMs

Starting from the origins of natural language processing technology, this provides a detailed explanation of the various language models developed in the journey leading up to the latest LLM models.

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transformer
LLM

What you will gain after the course

  • The Development Process of Language Models and the Principles of Each Language Model

  • The Origins of NLP

  • # The Structure and Principles of Transformers

  • The Structure and Principles of RNN and LSTM

  • The Principles of Attention Mechanism

The History and Development of LLMs: From the Origins of Language Models to the Latest Technologies

🧭Important Notes

The course is currently being completed. Please note that you may have to wait a while until the course is fully finished (though I will be adding content regularly). Please consider this when making your purchase decision.

📋Change History

  • December 10, 2025


    • I've added a large number of new lessons and have released the table of contents for now. They are marked as [2nd Edition].

    • I have marked the existing classes as [Edition 1]. I plan to revise the existing classes. When they are updated with the revised content, the class titles will be marked as [Edition 2].

🔍Course Overview

This course provides a comprehensive learning journey through the evolution of language models, from early natural language processing research to modern large language models (LLMs). You will systematically understand the technological transformations that span from the rule-based era through statistical language models, neural network-based models, and the transformer revolution, leading to today's multimodal, efficiency-focused, and application-oriented LLMs.

🔍Learning Objectives

  • Understanding the overall evolution of how language models have developed.

  • Understand the characteristics of key models from each era (RNN, LSTM, Transformer, BERT, GPT, etc.).

  • I organize the latest LLM technologies and research trends in a structured manner.

  • Understand LLM efficiency techniques and their practical applications.

  • Critically examining the direction and limitations of future LLM research.

🔍Learning Structure

The course consists of a total of 6 sections, with each section organized around chronological developments and research axes.

  • Section 1: The Origins and Early Development of NLP

  • Section 2: Language Model Research Before Transformers

  • Section 3: The Transformer Revolution and Large Language Models

  • Section 4: Latest LLM Technologies and Research Trends

  • Section 5: LLM Efficiency Techniques and Model Optimization

  • Section 6: LLM Applications, System Integration, and Future Outlook

📘Section 1. The Origins and Early Development of Language Models

In this section, you will learn from the starting point of NLP to the foundation of early language models.

Key Learning Content
  • NLP addresses what problems and how it began

  • How rule-based systems were structured and why they hit their limits

  • How statistical language models (n-gram LM) emerged

  • The emergence and significance of early large-scale corpora such as the Brown Corpus and Penn Treebank

  • # The Concept of Distributional Hypothesis and Its Application in NLP The distributional hypothesis is a fundamental concept in natural language processing (NLP) that states words appearing in similar contexts tend to have similar meanings. This hypothesis forms the theoretical foundation for modern word embedding techniques and plays a crucial role in enabling computers to understand the meaning of language. ## Core Concept The distributional hypothesis is based on a simple yet powerful idea: "You shall know a word by the company it keeps." This means that the meaning of a word can be inferred from the words that frequently appear around it. For example, words like "dog" and "cat" often appear in similar contexts (

  • Word2Vec, GloVe, and Other Early Word Embedding Technologies: Their Birth and Contributions

📘Section 2. Evolution of Language Models Before Transformers

In this section, we cover how RNN-based models transformed NLP and the technical limitations before transformers.

Main Learning Content
  • # The Background and Structural Principles of RNN, LSTM, and GRU

  • The Essence of the Long-term Dependency Problem

  • How the Seq2Seq Architecture Led to Innovation in Machine Translation

  • The Reason for the Emergence of the Attention Mechanism and Its Effects

  • CNN-based language models fall under a different research category, so not certain, but learning the main ideas

  • Understanding the research landscape before Transformers and the need for next-generation models

📘Section 3. The Transformer Revolution and the Era of Large Language Models

In this section, you'll learn how the modern LLM era centered on transformers began.

Key Learning Content
  • The structure and characteristics of Transformers, exemplified by "Attention Is All You Need"

  • The Background of Pretraining and Language Understanding Models

  • # BERT Model's Bidirectionality Concept and MLM (Masked LM) Technique

  • The main development flow of the GPT series (GPT–GPT-4)

  • The standardization of the "pre-training → fine-tuning" learning paradigm

  • The Meaning of Scaling Laws and Changes in LLM Training Strategies

📘Section 4. Latest LLM Models and Technological Advances

This section covers not only the structure, characteristics, and training methods of the latest LLMs, but also human feedback-based models.

Key Learning Topics
  • Common Characteristics of Modern LLMs like GPT-4, Llama, and Claude

  • The Background of Open Source LLMs (e.g., Llama·Mistral)

  • RLHF, DPO, Instruction Tuning and other user-customized learning technologies

  • Structure and Use Cases of Multimodal Models

  • Research on Bias, Hallucination, Safety, and Ethical Considerations

📘Section 5. LLM Efficiency Techniques and Model Optimization

This section focuses on techniques for making large-scale models lighter and faster.

Key Learning Topics
  • Quantization, Pruning, Knowledge Distillation

  • LoRA·Prefix Tuning and other PEFT (Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning) methods

  • FlashAttention and other high-speed Attention algorithms

  • Inference Cost Reduction Techniques

  • The Concept and Technical Challenges of On-Device LLMs

  • Efficiency Case Studies in Real Service Implementation

📘Section 6. LLM Applications, System Integration, and Future Prospects

This section teaches how LLMs are actually utilized in real systems and services,
and summarizes future directions while acknowledging some uncertainties.

Main Learning Content
  • # Structure and Advantages of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

  • The principles of tool-based LLMs such as Toolformer and ReAct

  • Medical, legal, and coding domain-specific LLMs

  • Expansion of Multimodal Models such as GPT-4V

  • # LLM-Based Autonomous Systems Research (Partially "Uncertain")

  • The future outlook and points of debate regarding LLMs (e.g., AGI possibility → "uncertain")

🔍Example Screen

As shown in the example screen below, various diagrams are used during the lecture to explain concepts related to LLMs in detail. In particularwe provide intensive explanations using diagrams related to NLP, RNN, self-attention, transformer, and LLM.

Class 3 Screen Example 1

Screen Example 2 Explained in Lesson 3

Lecture Title

Class 3 Screen Example 3

🔍Things to Note Before Enrollment

Target

  • Learners interested in artificial intelligence and data science

  • Developers and researchers who want to systematically understand NLP or LLM technology

  • Anyone who wants to understand the latest trends in artificial intelligence technology


Prerequisites

  • Basic Machine Learning Concepts

  • Experience with using simple Python-based models (recommended)

Expected Benefits

  • You can gain a deep understanding of the overall history of language model development.

  • You can build foundational knowledge to analyze and utilize the latest LLM technologies and trends.

  • You can design problem-solving approaches, service designs, and research directions utilizing LLMs.

Practice Environment

  • Since this is a theory-focused lecture, no separate practice environment is required.

Learning Materials

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  • Those who want to understand the artificial neural network architecture that forms the foundation of LLMs

  • Those who want to build theoretical knowledge for developing LLMs directly

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