The Mathematics of Large Language Models: From Tokens to Transformers, Training to Decoding - Softcover

Trex, Team

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798896653196

Verlag: NobleTrex Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

"The Mathematics of Large Language Models: From Tokens to Transformers, Training to Decoding"

"The Mathematics of Large Language Models" bridges the gap between high-level intuition and rigorous implementation. This book is designed for machine learning engineers, data scientists, and researchers who demand a precise mathematical understanding of how modern generative AI functions. By peeling away abstraction layers, we treat the Large Language Model not as a black box, but as a complex probabilistic distribution conditioned on discrete sequence history, requiring a solid grasp of linear algebra and probability theory.

The text systematically constructs the Transformer architecture from first principles, exploring the vector space of embeddings, the dynamics of scaled dot-product attention, and the gradient stabilization provided by LayerNorm and residual connections. Readers will master the derivation of the Maximum Likelihood Estimation objective used in pre-training and analyze the mechanics of inference strategies, including Nucleus and Top-k sampling. Every chapter reinforces the connection between theoretical formulas and their practical execution in code-ready logic.

Distinguishing itself through depth, this volume avoids superficial analogies in favor of exact definitions and numerical walkthroughs. From the entropy of subword tokenization to the arithmetic of the softmax transformation, the book provides a complete mathematical synthesis. It is the essential reference for those seeking to understand the deterministic operations that give rise to stochastic creat

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: NobleTrex Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798896653196
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 197
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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