Mathematics of LLMs in Everyday Language - Highlights
This hour-long video covers not just the maths behind LLMs but also the history. Complex topics are well explained. * Training a large language model is like constructing a skyscraper, where every brick is placed by an army of specialists working around the clock. But here, the bricks are data, the mortar is mathematics, and the blueprint is a complex interplay of algorithms. * LLMs don't truly understand. They excel not through cognition, but through colossal computation. * Mathematics is the invisible backbone of these 'thinking machines'. * N-grams - A statistical method used by early language models that broke down text into small sequences of words to predict the next word based on common combinations in a dataset. * Transformers - A groundbreaking architecture introduced in 2017 that revolutionized the field by enabling machines to grasp context at an unprecedented scale , allowing models to pay attention to all parts of a se...