Build your own LLM model

using OpenAI

Jatin Solanki
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Discover how to build a custom LLM model using OpenAI and

a large Excel dataset for tailored business responses. This
guide covers dataset preparation, fine-tuning an OpenAI
model, and generating human-like responses to business
prompts. Boost productivity with a powerful tool for content
generation, customer support, and data analysis.
Introduction:
In recent years, large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s
GPT series have revolutionized the field of natural language
processing (NLP). These models are capable of generating
human-like responses to a variety of prompts, making them a
valuable asset for businesses. In this article, we’ll guide you
through the process of building your own LLM model using
OpenAI, a large Excel file, and share sample code and
illustrations to help you along the way. By the end, you’ll have
a solid understanding of how to create a custom LLM model
that caters to your specific business needs.

Prerequisites:

1. Python programming knowledge

 2. Familiarity with NLP concepts

3. Access to the OpenAI API

4. A large Excel file containing the dataset you want

to train your model on

Step 1: Preparing the Dataset

Before we can train our model, we need to prepare the data in a

format suitable for training. This involves the following steps:

1.1. Import the necessary libraries and read the Excel file:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

# Read the Excel file

data = pd.read_excel('your_large_excel_file.xlsx')

1.2. Clean and preprocess the data:

 Remove any unnecessary columns

 Fill missing values or drop rows with missing data

  Convert text data to lowercase

 Tokenize text and remove stop words

1.3. Split the dataset into training and validation sets:

from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split

train_data, val_data = train_test_split(data, test_size=0.2,
random_state=42)‍

Step 2: Fine-tuning the OpenAI Model‍

In this step, we’ll fine-tune a pre-trained OpenAI model on our

dataset.

2.1. Install the OpenAI library and import necessary modules:

!pip install openai

import openai
import torch
from transformers import GPT2Tokenizer, GPT2LMHeadModel,
TextDataset, DataCollatorForLanguageModeling, Trainer,
TrainingArguments

2.2. Load the pre-trained model and tokenizer:

MODEL_NAME = 'gpt-4'
tokenizer = GPT2Tokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL_NAME)
model = GPT2LMHeadModel.from_pretrained(MODEL_NAME)‍

2.3. Prepare the dataset for training:

train_dataset = TextDataset(tokenizer=tokenizer,
file_path='train_data.txt', block_size=128)
val_dataset = TextDataset(tokenizer=tokenizer,
file_path='val_data.txt', block_size=128)
data_collator = DataCollatorForLanguageModeling(tokenizer=tokenizer,
mlm=False)‍

2.4. Fine-tune the model:

training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir='./results',
overwrite_output_dir=True,
num_train_epochs=3,
per_device_train_batch_size=4,
per_device_eval_batch_size=4,
eval_steps=100,
save_steps=100,
warmup_steps=10,
prediction_loss_only=True,
)

trainer = Trainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
data_collator=data_collator,
 train_dataset=train_dataset,
eval_dataset=val_dataset,
)
trainer.train()‍

Step 3: Generating Responses to Business Prompts

3.1. Define a function to generate responses:

def generate_response(prompt, max_length=150, num_responses=1):

input_ids = tokenizer.encode(prompt, return_tensors='pt')
output = model.generate(
input_ids,
max_length=max_length,
num_return_sequences=num_responses,
no_repeat_ngram_size=2,
temperature=0.7,
top_k=50,
top_p=0.95,
)
decoded_output = [tokenizer.decode(response,
skip_special_tokens=True) for response in output]
return decoded_output
‍

3.2. Test your model with a business prompt:

prompt = "What are some strategies for effective marketing in the

technology industry?"
responses = generate_response(prompt, num_responses=3)
for i, response in enumerate(responses):
print(f"Response {i+1}: {response}\n")

Conclusion:
In this article, we’ve demonstrated how to build a custom LLM
model using OpenAI and a large Excel dataset. We walked you
through the steps of preparing the dataset, fine-tuning the
model, and generating responses to business prompts. By
following this tutorial, you can create your own LLM model
tailored to the specific needs of your business, making it a
powerful tool for tasks like content generation, customer
support, and data analysis.

For further reading, we recommend exploring the following

resources:

1. OpenAI’s official

documentation: https://beta.openai.com/docs/

2. Hugging Face’s Transformers

library: https://huggingface.co/transformers/

3. Fine-tuning GPT-2 for text

generation: https://huggingface.co/blog/how-to-

generate