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  2. Causal mask

Glossary

Causal mask

A rule in attention that blocks each token from looking at later tokens. Without it the model could copy the answer it is supposed to predict.

Where it is explained

  • How LLMs workLLM foundations

See also

Terms explained in the same lessons.

  • Autoregressive generation
  • Large language model (LLM)
  • Multi-head attention
  • Positional encoding
  • Query, key and value (Q, K, V)
  • Self-attention
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