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Start LLM Fundamentals PracticeWhat is the primary purpose of the self-attention mechanism in a Transformer model?
Explanation: Self-attention allows each token to attend to every other token in the sequence, capturing contextual relationships regardless of distance.
Which of the following best describes the difference between an encoder-only model (e.g., BERT) and a decoder-only model (e.g., GPT)?
Explanation: Option A is correct because encoder-only models like BERT employ bidirectional attention, allowing each token to attend to all other tokens in both directions, which is ideal for tasks requiring full context understanding such as classification or named entity recognition (NER). In contrast, decoder-only models like GPT use causal (masked) attention, where each token can only attend to previous tokens, making them suitable for autoregressive text generation.
A practitioner wants to evaluate an LLM-generated summary against a human-written reference using a metric that focuses on recall of key information. Which metric is most appropriate?
Explanation: ROUGE (Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation) is the most appropriate metric because it specifically measures recall of key information by comparing n-gram overlap between the generated summary and a reference summary. This aligns directly with the practitioner's goal of evaluating how well the LLM-generated summary captures the essential content from the human-written reference.
A company needs to generate embeddings for a large corpus of legal documents to enable semantic search. Which type of model should they use?
Explanation: An encoder-only embedding model like Cohere Embed is designed to convert text into dense vector representations (embeddings) that capture semantic meaning, which is exactly what is needed for semantic search over a large corpus of legal documents. These models use a bidirectional transformer architecture to encode context from both directions, producing fixed-size embeddings that can be efficiently compared using cosine similarity or other distance metrics.
Which of the following sampling strategies selects tokens based on a cumulative probability threshold from the highest probability tokens?
Explanation: Top-p (nucleus) sampling cuts off the tail of the probability distribution where cumulative probability exceeds p, allowing dynamic vocabulary size.
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