The Transformer Architecture
Introduction
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A plain-language tour of the transformer as two units working in tandem: a word embedder that translates words into numbers, and a generator (the "decoder") — a multilayer perceptron with self-attention on top — that produces the next word from the previous ones. Part of an accessible series explaining LLMs without assuming a technical background.