Foundation Model Engineering textbook

Foundation Model Engineering is a technical textbook for engineers and research-focused readers that explains architectures, training and inference pipelines, retrieval, evaluation, and engineering trade-offs; it includes concept-focused PyTorch examples, quizzes, and interactive visualizers to build coherent engineering judgment.

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