Debate: Co-occurrence Statistics as the Mathematical Foundation of LLMs

In an online discussion, researchers break down how LLMs work into embeddings creation and the autoregressive loop, arguing that co-occurrence statistics—distributions compressed by gradient descent—form the indispensable mathematical foundation of the token-driven transformer architecture.

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