How LLMs Work: A Journey Through One Sentence

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You’ve probably heard that LLMs “predict the next token”. So, let’s follow that sentence through a transformer, from text to numbers, through embeddings and attention, all the way to the next token. Attention mixes information between positions; the feed-forward network processes the resulting information at each position.

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