[2026-04-14]
How Large Language Models Work: The Complete Technical Guide to Transformers, Training, and Inference (2026)— @dylan >>
A deep technical guide to how LLMs actually work — from the transformer architecture and attention mechanism to tokenization, training at scale, KV caching, inference acceleration, fine-tuning, and the modern innovations powering GPT-4o, Claude, Llama 3, and beyond. Backed by 30+ research papers.