Local LLM Workshop
Getting started with local LLMs is a hands-on workshop about running large language models on your own computer. It takes place at the Semantic Web in Libraries conference (SWIB). Nishad Thalhath has run it since 2024.
16 November 2026. Apertus, Ollama or LM Studio, structured output, vocabularies, RAG, tool use.
Everything to do before the workshop, on one page.
Ollama app, Llama models, embeddings and RAG. Kept for reference.
The first edition. Kept for reference.
Materials are published under CC BY 4.0 (text) and MIT (code). Source: github.com/nishad/llm-workshop and github.com/nishad/llm-workshop-notebooks.