Open-Source Model Ecosystem

Course overview

Survey of the open-source model ecosystem: model families, licensing and use cases; model hubs and model cards; Transformers pipelines and tokenizers; and how to choose between API, local hosting or fine-tuning for LLM deployment.

Mapping open-source model families, their licenses and suitable use cases.

Understanding model hubs and model cards: how to interpret metadata and linked datasets.

Basics of Transformers pipelines and tokenizers and their impact on performance and cost.

Decision criteria for API use vs local hosting vs fine-tuning based on technical needs and available resources.