Stanford CME295 Transformers & LLMs | Autumn 2025 | Lecture 9 - Recap & Current Trends

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December 5, 2025
This lecture covers:
• Recap
• Trending topics
• Closing thoughts

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Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:12 Transformer
00:06:35 Transformer-based models & tricks
00:11:17 Large Language Models
00:15:05 LLM training
00:24:09 LLM tuning
00:29:41 LLM reasoning
00:38:37 Agentic LLMs (RAG, tool calling)
00:44:09 LLM evaluation
00:48:57 Vision Transformer
01:04:02 Diffusion-based LLMs
01:23:38 Closing thoughts
01:50:16 Thank you!

Afshine Amidi is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University.

Shervine Amidi is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University.

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