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A Primer on the Inner Workings of Transformer-based Language Models

Arianna Bisazza, Gabriele Sarti, Javier Ferrando, Marta R. Costa-juss\`a

arxiv:2405.00208 v3 · 2024-04-30 · cs.CL

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arxiv: 2405.00208 · arxiv_version: 2405.00208v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2405.00208 · pith_short_12: 5L7B7RSIOTNF · pith_short_16: 5L7B7RSIOTNF5LRH · pith_short_8: 5L7B7RSI

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5L7B7RSIOTNF5LRHXOF7LCM6BN \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
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