How to Use Large Language Models (LLM) in Your Own Domains

Ever since being popularized by ChatGPT in late 2022, large language models (LLM) have attracted intense interest from the research and industry communities. While general chatbot is an obvious application of large language models, enterprises are thinking about how to integrate large language models into their business workflows to leverage this latest AI advance. A fundamental premise of business specific integration though, is to be able to adapt the large language models to the bespoke business domain, since LLMs are usually trained on open internet information, which contains too much noise and is not always closely relevant to the specific business context. While there are many good blog posts out there already detailing large language models themselves, there seems to be a lack of solid introduction on how to leverage LLMs. In this blog post, we examine a few canonical ways of adapting LLMs to domain specific tasks from recent research literature.