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This is where your LLM "thinks." For a sequence of tokens, self-attention computes a weighted sum of all previous tokens (causal means you cannot look into the future).

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[ \textAttention(Q, K, V) = \textsoftmax\left(\fracQK^T\sqrtd_k + M\right)V ]

Where:

Implementation tip for the PDF: Implement this using PyTorch’s nn.Linear and masked F.softmax. Provide a full annotated code listing.

After training, generate text:

def generate(model, tokenizer, prompt, max_new_tokens=50, temperature=0.8):
    model.eval()
    input_ids = tokenizer.encode(prompt)
    for _ in range(max_new_tokens):
        logits = model(input_ids[-256:])  # crop to context length
        next_token_logits = logits[0, -1, :] / temperature
        probs = F.softmax(next_token_logits, dim=-1)
        next_token = torch.multinomial(probs, num_samples=1)
        input_ids.append(next_token.item())
        if next_token == tokenizer.eos_token_id:
            break
    return tokenizer.decode(input_ids)

Try: generate("Once upon a time", temperature=0.9)