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Autoregressive Model

A model that generates output one piece at a time, with each new piece depending on all the previous ones.

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A model that generates output one piece at a time, with each new piece depending on all the previous ones. GPT and other large language models work this way — they predict the next token based on everything that came before it. Great for text generation, but inherently sequential.

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