Welcome to the WWW site for the Spring Semester 2026 CS 668 Applied Large Language Models course at San Diego State University.

• Lecture notes
• Assignments
• Reading Assignments
• Syllabus

• Speech and Language Processing
• Building a Large Language Model (from Scratch)

• LLM Resources
• Hugging Face - LLM Model Repository
• The Illustrated Transformer

• Foundations of Large Language Models (PDF Text) by Tong Xiao and Jingbo Zhu, 1/17/2026

• DeepSeek - DeepSeek LLM
• Gemini - Google LLM
• Claude - Anthropic LLM
• Perplexity - Perplexity AI LLM
• Llama - Meta LLM
• Mistral - Mistral LLM
• Tiktokenizer