Tokenization: How LLMs Turn Text Into Something They Can Process
You type a sentence and assume the model receives it as you wrote it. It does not. What actually happens to your text before the model ever sees it.
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You type a sentence and assume the model receives it as you wrote it. It does not. What actually happens to your text before the model ever sees it.
What a large language model actually is, and why these models are called 'large' — the foundation piece, before tokenization and everything built on top of it.
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