
Why can decoder-only transformers be so good at machine translation …
Jun 8, 2023 · In my understanding encoder-decoder transformers for translation are trained with sentence or text pairs. How can it be explained in simple (high-level) terms that decoder-only …
Mastering Decoder-Only Transformer: A Comprehensive Guide
Apr 26, 2024 · Explore the architecture and components of the Decoder-Only Transformer model. Understand the role of attention mechanisms, including Scaled Dot-Product Attention and …
How does the (decoder-only) transformer architecture work?
May 30, 2023 · However, models such as GPT-3, ChatGPT, GPT-4 & LaMDa use the (decoder-only) transformer architecture. It is key first to understand the input and output of a …
Decoder-Only Transformers Explained: The Engine Behind LLMs
Aug 31, 2024 · Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3, LLaMA, and Gemini are revolutionizing how we interact with and generate text. At the heart of these powerful models …
Decoder-Only Transformers: The Workhorse of Generative LLMs
Decoder-only transformers receive a textual prompt as input. First, we use a tokenizer— based upon an algorithm like Byte-Pair Encoding —to break this text into discrete tokens. Then, we …
Decoder-only Streaming Transformer for Simultaneous Translation
Apr 18, 2025 · However, directly applying the Decoder-only architecture to SiMT poses challenges in terms of training and inference. To alleviate the above problems, we propose the …
Scaling Laws of Decoder-Only Models on the Multilingual …
Sep 23, 2024 · Recent studies have showcased remarkable capabilities of decoder-only models in many NLP tasks, including translation. Yet, the machine translation field has been largely …
Exploring Decoder-Only Transformers for NLP and More
Jan 27, 2023 · A “decoder-only transformer” is a type of neural network architecture that’s commonly used in natural language processing tasks such as machine translation and text …
The Mechanics of Transformer Models: Decoding the Decoder-Only ...
Encoder-only models, exemplified by BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), specialize in understanding or “encoding” language. They excel at tasks that …
Scaling Laws of Decoder-Only Models on the Multilingual …
We trained a collection of six decoder-only models, ranging from 70M to 7B parameters, on a sentence-level, multilingual (8 languages) and multidomain (9 domains) dataset.