An LLM model refers to a Large Language Model—a type of artificial intelligence model trained on
massive amounts of text data to understand and generate human language. Here's a concise
breakdown:
🧠 What is an LLM (Large Language Model)?
Definition: A neural network model, typically based on the Transformer architecture, trained
on a diverse and vast corpus of text to perform language-related tasks.
Examples:
o OpenAI’s GPT-4, GPT-3.5
o Google’s Gemini
o Meta’s LLaMA
o Anthropic’s Claude
o Mistral’s models
🔍 Core Capabilities
LLMs can:
Generate human-like text
Translate languages
Summarize documents
Write code
Answer questions and tutor in various subjects
Understand and reason across long text spans
🧱 Architecture: Based on Transformers
LLMs use the Transformer architecture, introduced in the paper "Attention is All You Need" (Vaswani
et al., 2017). Key components:
Self-attention mechanism
Positional encoding
Deep stacking of layers (sometimes 10s or even 100s)
Training Process
Pretraining: On publicly available text (e.g. books, websites, code)
Fine-tuning: On curated datasets or specialized domains (e.g. medicine, law)
Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF): Used to align models better with
human expectations
📦 Applications
Chatbots (e.g. ChatGPT)
Coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot)
Search engines
Customer support
Content generation
Legal/financial document summarization