What’s on the LLM Vocabulary poster
A 8-row table: Term · Means.
Terms you meet immediately when working with language models.
- Token — A chunk of text — roughly ¾ of a word
- Context window — How many tokens the model can consider at once
- Parameters — The learned weights; a rough proxy for size
- Inference — Running the model to get an output
- Fine-tuning — Further training on your own data
- Temperature — How much randomness in the output
- Prompt — Everything you send in
- Completion — Everything the model sends back
Cost and limits are almost always counted in tokens, not words or characters. English averages ~4 characters per token.
Questions about the LLM Vocabulary poster
- What’s on the LLM Vocabulary poster?
- A 8-row table: Term · Means. Terms you meet immediately when working with language models. Token — A chunk of text — roughly ¾ of a word; Context window — How many tokens the model can consider at once; Parameters — The learned weights; a rough proxy for size; Inference — Running the model to get an output; Fine-tuning — Further training on your own data; Temperature — How much randomness in the output; Prompt — Everything you send in; Completion — Everything the model sends back. Cost and limits are almost always counted in tokens, not words or characters. English averages ~4 characters per token.
- Who is the LLM Vocabulary poster for?
- LLM Vocabulary belongs to the Computing section rather than to a school year, because computing is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ai & ml can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the LLM Vocabulary poster?
- Read a model card with this beside you. Most of the jargon is three or four ideas repeated. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so LLM Vocabulary belongs on the wall where that computing work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with LLM Vocabulary?
- Embeddings, Evaluating AI Output and Kinds of Model sit alongside LLM Vocabulary in the Computing section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.EmbeddingsEvaluating AI OutputKinds of Model
- Is the LLM Vocabulary poster free to download and print?
- Yes. LLM Vocabulary downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Computing section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the LLM Vocabulary poster print at?
- LLM Vocabulary is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of LLM Vocabulary loses nothing.Printing guide
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