Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch)

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"An exceptional deep dive into the next frontier of AI."
-Aman Chadha, Google

This book is a practical guide to understanding how modern reasoning-oriented LLMs work by building their core methods step by step. The book tells a clear engineering story: start with a conventional pre-trained LLM, learn how text generation works, build reliable evaluation tools, improve reasoning through inference-time methods, then move into traini...