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Re:How LLMs Work by sharma-arjun on Saturday June 06, 2026 @03:17AM (#48422290)
Not a core paper, but I found Formal Algorithms for Transformers [1] (a Google paper from 2022) to have a great pedagogical style.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09238

Re:How LLMs Work by barrenko on Saturday June 06, 2026 @03:33AM (#48422392)
I'll add in here https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/, "Speech and Language Processing", with chapters that deal specifically with LLMs and transformers.