How An LLM Reads And Writes: Tokens, Embeddings And Next-Token Prediction
Large language models turn text into numbered pieces, turn those into vectors and then predict one piece at a time. Here is that loop explained step by step.
How large language models work, what they are good at and where they go wrong.
Large language models turn text into numbered pieces, turn those into vectors and then predict one piece at a time. Here is that loop explained step by step.
The transformer underpins well-known language models such as OpenAI's GPT series. Here is what attention does, why it was a breakthrough and how the pieces of a transformer fit together.
A freshly pretrained language model only continues text. Several further training stages turn it into an assistant that follows instructions. Here is what each stage does.
Why language models invent facts, how settings like temperature change their output, and how retrieval-augmented generation grounds answers in your own documents.