Stanford CME295 Transformers & LLMs | Autumn 2025 | Lecture 9 - Recap & Current Trends

For more information about Stanford’s graduate programs, visit: https://online.stanford.edu/graduate-education December 5, 2025 This lecture covers: • Recap • Trending topics • Closing thoughts To follow along with the course schedule and syllabus, visit: https://cme295.stanford.edu/syllabus/ Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:12 Transformer 00:06:35 Transformer-based models & tricks 00:11:17 Large Language Models 00:15:05 LLM training 00:24:09 LLM tuning 00:29:41 LLM reasoning 00:38:37 Agentic LLMs (RAG, tool calling) 00:44:09 LLM evaluation 00:48:57 Vision Transformer 01:04:02 Diffusion-based LLMs 01:23:38 Closing thoughts 01:50:16 Thank you! Afshine Amidi is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University. Shervine Amidi is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University. View the course playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOCXd21gf0CF4xr35yINeOy