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44. GPT From Scratch

A small GPT can be constructed from:

  • tokenizer
  • token embeddings
  • positional information
  • causal self-attention
  • multi-head attention
  • feed-forward networks
  • residual connections
  • layer normalization
  • output projection

The complete flow is:

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Tokenizer
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Token IDs
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Embeddings
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Transformer Blocks
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Logits

This is the bridge from neural-network fundamentals to LLM architecture.