LLM Core Mechanics: Probability-Based Word-by-Word Generation

KordingLab · x · 2026-08-26

The tweet explains the core working principle of LLMs: the real work is done by a core machine, the neural network, which generates one word at a time based on inputs. The probability of each word depends on prior words, and the model selects words sequentially according to these probabilities.

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