Chapter 3: Looking Inside Large Language Models | Hands-On Large Language Models Book
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Delves into the internal mechanics of large language models with Chapter 3 of the Hands-On Large Language Models book
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In this video, we go completely under the hood of a generative Transformer block with Chapter 3: Looking Inside Large Language Models from the book Hands-On Large Language Models.
Instead of treating text generation like a magic black box, we open up the internal pipeline of autoregressive causal language models. You will learn the exact technical mechanics of how a prompt travels from token IDs, through a massively parallelized forward pass of stacked decoder layers, into a vocabulary logit scoring layer, and finally out as sequential text generation. We also explore the critical architecture elements like the KV Cache and modern efficiency upgrades that keep model latency down.
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