Mathematics of LLMs Made Simple: Algorithms That Power LLMs, Explained in Everyday Language

This is an essential guide of the mathematics, algorithms, and trade-offs behind large language models, all explained in everyday language for everyone. Learn how LLMs truly work, behind the scene This is for everyone, irrespective of whether you have background in computers or not. You will see how LLMs turn text into tokens, tokens into probabilities, and probabilities into coherent language. The book covers information theory, entropy, n-gram models, Byte Pair Encoding, embeddings, trans...