Context Window

Intermediate

Maximum number of tokens the model can attend to in one forward pass; constrains long-document reasoning.

Full Definition

Maximum number of tokens the model can attend to in one forward pass; constrains long-document reasoning.

Keywords

max tokens memory

Domains

Transformers & LLMs

Related Terms

Throughput related to

How many requests or tokens can be processed per unit time; affects scalability and cost.

 Transformer related to

Architecture based on self-attention and feedforward layers; foundation of modern LLMs and many multimodal models.

 Attention related to

Mechanism that computes context-aware mixtures of representations; scales well and captures long-range dependencies.

 Self-Attention related to

Attention where queries/keys/values come from the same sequence, enabling token-to-token interactions.

 Vocabulary related to

The set of tokens a model can represent; impacts efficiency, multilinguality, and handling of rare strings.

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