Glossary · Phase 5 · Transformers
GPT
Generative pre-trained transformer: a stack of transformer blocks trained to predict the next token.
Try it now
Set it to 50,257 / 1,024 / 768 / 12 and you get GPT-2 small's roughly 124 million. Width costs the most, because it's squared.
Learn it properly
The GPT architecture · A stack of decoder blocks that predicts the next token. About 35 minutes.
Other terms from the same lesson
- language-model head: The last layer of a language model. It turns the final vector at each position into one score per token in the vocabulary.
- weight tying: Reusing the input embedding table as the output layer, so the model needs fewer numbers to learn.
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