A book titled Foundations of Large Language Models has been featured on Hugging Face's papers page, offering an introductory treatment of the core ideas behind modern language models.
According to the description, the book deliberately focuses on foundational concepts rather than attempting comprehensive coverage of every cutting-edge technology. It is organized into six main chapters, each devoted to a key area: pre-training, generative models, prompting, alignment, inference, and reasoning.
The intended audience includes college students, professionals, and practitioners in natural language processing and related fields. The text is also positioned as a reference for anyone interested in large language models.
The paper page has drawn community engagement, with one commenter calling it "already a classic," and the work appears in 17 collections on the platform.