Transformers: understanding how linguistic decoding begins

An educational series explores in detail the decoding phase in transformers, the critical step where the model generates the first response tokens.

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Decoding fundamentally differs from encoding by its autoregressive nature: each generated token influences the probability of the next one.

This technical understanding illuminates how language models produce coherent text token by token.

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