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Duration 14 hours
Course Outline
AI Sovereignty and Local LLM Deployment
- Assessing the risks associated with cloud LLMs: data retention, input training, and foreign jurisdiction issues.
- Exploring Ollama’s architecture, including its model server, registry, and OpenAI-compatible API.
- Comparing Ollama with alternatives such as vLLM, llama.cpp, and Text Generation Inference.
- Reviewing model licensing terms for Llama, Mistral, Qwen, and Gemma.
Installation and Hardware Configuration
- Installing Ollama on Linux with support for CUDA and ROCm.
- Implementing CPU-only fallbacks and optimizing for AVX/AVX2.
- Deploying via Docker with persistent volume mapping.
- Configuring multi-GPU setups and managing VRAM allocation strategies.
Model Management
- Fetching models from the Ollama registry using commands like 'ollama pull llama3'.
- Importing GGUF models from HuggingFace and TheBloke.
- Evaluating the tradeoffs of quantization levels such as Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, and Q8_0.
- Managing model switching and concurrent loading limits.
Custom Modelfiles
- Mastering Modelfile syntax, including FROM, PARAMETER, SYSTEM, and TEMPLATE.
- Tuning parameters like temperature, top_p, and repeat_penalty.
- Engineering system prompts for role-specific behaviors.
- Creating and publishing custom models to a local registry.
API Integration
- Utilizing the OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions endpoint.
- Handling streaming responses and JSON mode.
- Integrating with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and custom applications.
- Implementing authentication and rate limiting using reverse proxies.
Performance Optimization
- Managing context window sizing and KV cache efficiency.
- Optimizing batch inference and parallel request handling.
- Allocating CPU threads and ensuring NUMA awareness.
- Monitoring GPU utilization and memory pressure.
Security and Compliance
- Isolating networks for model serving endpoints.
- Implementing input filtering and output moderation pipelines.
- Maintaining audit logs for prompts and completions.
- Verifying model provenance and hash integrity.
Requirements
- Intermediate proficiency in Linux and container administration.
- A high-level understanding of machine learning and transformer models.
- Familiarity with REST APIs and JSON structures.
Target Audience
- AI engineers and developers looking to substitute cloud LLM APIs with local solutions.
- Organizations where data sensitivity restricts the use of cloud-based models.
- Government and defense teams requiring air-gapped language model infrastructure.
