This book is a short introduction to deep learning for readers with
a STEM background, originally designed to be read on a phone
screen. This is the v1.2 updated on May
19th, 2024.

It is distributed under a non-commercial Creative Commons license
and was downloaded
600’000 times in a
bit more than a year.

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Updates

V1.2 (May 19, 2024)

• Chapter 8. New chapter on low-resource methods (prompt
  engineering, quantization, low-rank adapters, model merging).
• Miscellaneous. Changed “meta parameter” to “hyper
  parameter”.
• Section 3.6. Added a sub-section about fine-tuning.
• Section 4.8. Added the note about the quadratic