Build a Small Language Model (SLM) From Scratch | Make it Your Personal Assistant | Tech Edge AI

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:34:51 +0000

In this video, learn how to build your own Small Language Model (SLM) from scratch using Python, PyTorch, and Hugging Face datasets. We’ll walk through every step — from data collection and preprocessing to tokenization, transformer architecture, and model training.

You’ll discover how a compact 10–15 million parameter model can still generate coherent and meaningful text, using concepts inspired by GPT models. This tutorial simplifies complex AI topics like embedding layers, attention mechanisms, loss computation, and next-token prediction — all explained clearly with working code examples.

🔹 Topics Covered:

What are Small Language Models (SLMs)?

Using the TinyStories dataset from Hugging Face

Tokenization with OpenAI’s tiktoken library

Creating .bin training files for efficient processing

Building a Transformer architecture step-by-step

Implementing GPT-like attention blocks

Training configuration and hyperparameter tuning

Generating text from your trained SLM

🎯 Perfect for AI researchers, ML engineers, and enthusiasts who want to understand how GPT-style models actually work under the hood — without requiring massive GPUs or billion-parameter setups.

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