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Glossary: Transformers Basics

Llama

Also written: Llama 3, LLaMA

A family of open models from Meta, and an example of a modern large decoder-only transformer using RoPE, RMSNorm, SwiGLU and grouped-query attention (GQA).

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

RoPE (rotary position embedding)RMSNormSwiGLUGrouped-query attention (GQA)