Terms

7 terms

  • Context window

    A context window is the maximum number of tokens a language model can process at once, covering the prompt, conversation history and its output.

  • GPT · language models

    GPT, the generative pre-trained transformer, is a family of decoder-only language models that generate text by predicting the next token in a sequence.

  • Hallucination

    Hallucination in language models is fluent, confident output that is false, unsupported or inconsistent with the given source, such as invented facts.

  • LLM

    An LLM (large language model) is a neural network trained on vast text corpora to predict the next token, which lets it generate and analyze language.

  • Prompt

    A prompt is the input text, instructions and context given to a language model, which the model continues or answers to produce its output.

  • Temperature

    Temperature is a sampling parameter in language models that scales token probabilities, controlling how predictable or varied generated text becomes.

  • Token

    A token is the basic unit of text a language model reads and writes, usually a word, word piece, character or byte sequence mapped to an…