A curated list of free, legitimately accessible books on Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Probabilistic Machine Learning, NLP/LLMs, and mathematical foundations — all made officially available by their own authors or publishers.
Every link points to an official source . This repository doesn't host any files — it only organizes and catalogs what authors already offer for free. See why at the bottom.
Book
Author(s)
Year
Official Link
Deep Learning
Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville (MIT Press)
2016
deeplearningbook.org
Understanding Deep Learning
Simon J.D. Prince
2023
udlbook.github.io
Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts
Christopher Bishop, Hugh Bishop
2024
bishopbook.com
Dive into Deep Learning (D2L)
Zhang, Lipton, Li, Smola
2023
d2l.ai
The Little Book of Deep Learning
François Fleuret
2023 (updated 2026)
fleuret.org
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Michael Nielsen
2015
neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com
A Brief Introduction to Neural Networks
David Kriesel
—
dkriesel.com
Book
Author(s)
Year
Official Link
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2nd ed.)
Richard Sutton, Andrew Barto
2018
incompleteideas.net
📊 Probabilistic / Bayesian
Book
Author(s)
Year
Official Link
Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction
Kevin Murphy
2022
probml.github.io
Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics
Kevin Murphy
2023
probml.github.io
Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning
David Barber
2012
web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk
Probabilistic Programming & Bayesian Methods for Hackers
Cam Davidson-Pilon
—
dataorigami.net
Think Bayes
Allen Downey
2021
greenteapress.com
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
David MacKay
2003
inference.phy.cam.ac.uk
Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning
Rasmussen, Williams
2006
gaussianprocess.org
A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition
Devroye, Györfi, Lugosi
—
szit.bme.hu
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
E.T. Jaynes
—
bayes.wustl.edu
📈 Classical Machine Learning / Statistics
Book
Author(s)
Year
Official Link
The Elements of Statistical Learning
Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman
2009
stanford.edu
An Introduction to Statistical Learning (R & Python)
James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani
2021/2023
statlearning.com
Computer Age Statistical Inference (CASI)
Efron, Hastie
2016
hastie.su.domains
Foundations of Machine Learning
Mohri, Rostamizadeh, Talwalkar
2018
cs.nyu.edu
Understanding Machine Learning
Shalev-Shwartz, Ben-David
2014
cs.huji.ac.il
A Course in Machine Learning
Hal Daumé III
—
ciml.info
Mining Massive Datasets
Leskovec, Rajaraman, Ullman
—
stanford.edu
The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
Andriy Burkov
2019
themlbook.com
Book
Author(s)
Year
Official Link
RAG + Knowledge Graph Master Course
Addy
2026
thequery.in
Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed., draft)
Daniel Jurafsky, James Martin
2026 (active draft)
web.stanford.edu
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
Manning, Schütze
1999
nlp.stanford.edu
An Introduction to Information Retrieval
Manning, Raghavan, Schütze
2008
nlp.stanford.edu
AI Agent Evaluation
Hallie Ren
2026
hallieren.github.io
Research, Rewritten: Using AI to Produce Knowledge You Can Trust
Hallie Ren
2026
hallieren.github.io
NLTK Book
Bird, Klein, Loper
—
nltk.org
Book
Author(s)
Year
Official Link
Mathematics for Machine Learning
Deisenroth, Faisal, Ong
2020
mml-book.github.io
The Matrix Cookbook
Petersen, Pedersen
—
uwaterloo.ca
Convex Optimization
Boyd, Vandenberghe
2004
stanford.edu
Linear Algebra Done Wrong
Sergei Treil
—
brown.edu
🖥️ ML Systems / Infrastructure
Book
Author(s)
Year
Official Link
Machine Learning Systems (Vol. I & II)
Harvard-Edge
2025–2026
mlsysbook.ai
Book
Author(s)
Year
Official Link
Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications (2nd ed.)
Richard Szeliski
2022
szeliski.org/Book (simple sign-up, free download)
Computer Vision: Models, Learning, and Inference
Simon J.D. Prince
2012
computervisionmodels.com
Foundations of Computer Vision
Antonio Torralba, Phillip Isola, William T. Freeman
2024
visionbook.mit.edu
🎨 Generative Models (Diffusion, GANs, VAEs)
Book
Author(s)
Year
Official Link
Deep Generative Modeling (2nd ed.)
Jakub M. Tomczak
2024
jmtomczak.github.io — covers mixture models, autoregressive models, flows, VAEs, GANs, score-based/diffusion, energy-based models, and LLMs
An Introduction to Variational Autoencoders
Diederik P. Kingma, Max Welling
2019
arxiv.org
The Principles of Diffusion Models
Chieh-Hsin Lai, Yang Song, Dongjun Kim, Yuki Mitsufuji, Stefano Ermon
2025
arxiv.org
Book
Author(s)
Year
Official Link
Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society
Dan Hendrycks (Center for AI Safety)
2024
aisafetybook.com — open access, includes a free companion course
Book
Author(s)
Year
Official Link
Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Algorithms
Agarwal, Brantley, Jiang, Kakade, Sun
2022 (continuously updated)
rltheorybook.github.io
Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control
Dimitri Bertsekas
2019
author's site (ASU)
A Course in Reinforcement Learning (2nd ed.)
Dimitri Bertsekas
2023/2025
author's site (ASU)
Contributions are welcome! Before opening a PR, read CONTRIBUTING.md . Quick rules:
The book must be officially and permanently free (no paid early-access, no time-limited trial).
The link must point to the primary source (author's site, university, or publisher with an open license) — never Scribd, PDFCoffee, Z-Library, Library Genesis, or similar.
Add it to the correct category, keeping alphabetical order by author within the table.
One book per PR to keep reviews easy.
⚖️ Why Official Links Only
This repository does not host any files . It works as a catalog/index, pointing to where authors themselves make their books freely available. This approach:
Respects each author's license terms (some, like the Deep Learning Book , track reader numbers via their own site analytics).
Avoids copyright issues and possible takedowns of the repository.
Guarantees you always get the most up-to-date version (several of these books — like Speech and Language Processing and The Little Book of Deep Learning — are updated frequently).
If a link breaks, please open an issue .
Made with 📖 for the global AI/ML community.
Curated by Marcos Cruz — feel free to connect on LinkedIn .