How LLMs Work - Hackdot

Re:How LLMs Work by LatencyKills on Saturday June 06, 2026 @08:58AM (#48424653)

I have a BS in CS (and have been in the field for 25 years). I couldn't understand the transformer architecture until I built a few myself. Here are the books I worked through. I now feel I have a very good understanding of modern LLMs.

https://www.amazon.com/Build-Large-Language-Model-Scratch/dp...

https://www.amazon.com/Build-DeepSeek-Scratch-Abhijit-Dandek...

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Re:How LLMs Work by tinktank on Sunday June 07, 2026 @12:48AM (#48431907)

Has it given you enough of an understanding that you can pick up and follow research papers or did you have to do more to achieve that?

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Re:How LLMs Work by LatencyKills on Sunday June 07, 2026 @06:40AM (#48433541)

I went this route because I had difficulty visualizing the content of the Attention Is All You Need paper. After going through both books, I can now understand every part of that paper.

I'm currently working on a robotics project that uses Nvidia's GR00T N1 model, and I was able to understand the research paper. [0]

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14734

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Re:How LLMs Work by tinktank on Sunday June 07, 2026 @10:50AM (#48435413)

Thank you for the information.

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