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How Language Models Actually Work · Chapter 2 · Quiz · 4 min read

Chapter quiz

Six questions, one per core idea of the chapter. Answer before peeking; every option explains itself.

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What does a trained LLM actually output after one forward pass?

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Lowering the temperature toward 0 does what to the output distribution?

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In self-attention, what role does a token's query vector play?

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Why can a 2,000-token prompt be processed in one fast pass, while generating 2,000 tokens takes 2,000 passes?

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What exactly does the KV cache store, and what does it trade?

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Why does doubling the context length more than double attention's cost?

You have finished Chapter 2. Next we ask where these weights come from: training.

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