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  2. Positional encoding

Glossary

Positional encoding

Extra information that tells the model where each token sits in the sequence. Attention alone has no sense of order, so position must be injected.

Where it is explained

  • How LLMs workLLM foundations

See also

Terms explained in the same lessons.

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