How Large Language Models (LLMs) Actually Work: An Interactive Guide
Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Claude, and LLaMA appear to understand reasoning, humor, code, and nuance. Yet under the hood, every LLM operates on a single core objective: given a sequence of tokens, predict the probability distribution for the very next token. In this guide, we demystify how LLMs transform human language into math, process context through the Transformer architecture, and generate coherent text. You can interact with the live demos below to see the math in action. ...