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Course Outline
AI Sovereignty and Local LLM Deployment
- Risks associated with cloud LLMs: data retention policies, training on user inputs, and foreign jurisdiction implications.
- Ollama architecture: model server functionality, registry management, and OpenAI-compatible API integration.
- Comparative analysis with vLLM, llama.cpp, and Text Generation Inference.
- Model licensing terms for Llama, Mistral, Qwen, and Gemma.
Installation and Hardware Configuration
- Installing Ollama on Linux systems with CUDA and ROCm support.
- CPU-only fallback mechanisms and AVX/AVX2 optimization techniques.
- Docker deployment strategies and persistent volume mapping.
- Multi-GPU configurations and VRAM allocation strategies.
Model Management
- Downloading models from the Ollama registry (e.g., ollama pull llama3).
- Importing GGUF models sourced from HuggingFace and TheBloke.
- Understanding quantization levels: trade-offs between Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, and Q8_0.
- Managing model switching and concurrent model loading limits.
Custom Modelfiles
- Syntax for writing Modelfiles: utilizing FROM, PARAMETER, SYSTEM, and TEMPLATE directives.
- Tuning parameters such as temperature, top_p, and repeat_penalty.
- Engineering system prompts to define role-specific behaviors.
- Creating and publishing custom models to the local registry.
API Integration
- Utilizing the OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions endpoint.
- Implementing streaming responses and JSON mode functionality.
- Integrating with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and custom applications.
- Managing authentication and rate limiting via reverse proxies.
Performance Optimization
- Sizing context windows and managing KV cache efficiently.
- Handling batch inference and parallel requests.
- Allocating CPU threads and ensuring NUMA awareness.
- Monitoring GPU utilization and managing memory pressure.
Security and Compliance
- Implementing network isolation for model serving endpoints.
- Setting up input filtering and output moderation pipelines.
- Auditing logs for prompts and completions.
- Verifying model provenance and hash integrity.
Requirements
- Intermediate proficiency in Linux and container administration.
- High-level understanding of machine learning principles and transformer models.
- Familiarity with REST APIs and JSON formatting.
Target Audience
- AI engineers and developers looking to replace cloud-based LLM APIs.
- Organizations handling sensitive data that prohibits the use of cloud models.
- Government and defense teams requiring air-gapped language model solutions.
14 Hours
