The Life of a Prompt, End to End

We have reached the end of our inference journey. Over the last few lessons, we have built every single component of a modern transformer decoder.

Let’s watch our simple prompt, "Twinkle, twinkle, little", complete its incredible journey from human language to a final, creative prediction.

Phase 1: Input preparation

The journey begins by translating our prompt into a format the machine can understand. This is a three-step process to create a matrix rich with both meaning and order.

1. Tokenization: First, the raw string is broken down into a standardized list of tokens, each of which is assigned a unique integer ...