Building LLMs from Scratch – Evaluation & Deployment (Part 4 Finale)

This article provides a practical guide to evaluating, testing, and deploying Language Models (LLMs) built from scratch. It emphasizes the importance of these steps after training, highlighting the need for reliability, consistency, and reproducibility. The article covers evaluation frameworks, testing patterns, and deployment paths, including local inference, Hugging Face publishing, and CI checks. It offers valuable resources like a blog post, GitHub repo, and Hugging Face profile. The focus on making the 'last mile' of LLM development 'boring' (in a good way) suggests a focus on practical, repeatable processes.