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GPU Inference & Serving Runtime

Diagnose latency vs throughput bottlenecks, KV-cache dynamics, continuous batching admission, distributed tensor parallelism, autoscaling backpressure, and unit economics.

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Tokens and Tokenization

How model inputs become discrete identifiers and why token boundaries affect cost and meaning.

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A language model does not read characters or words directly. A tokenizer converts text into a sequence of IDs drawn from a fixed vocabulary; the model operates on the learned vectors associated with those IDs. <ConceptDiagram sourceIds="transformer-paper|hf-tokenizers" steps="Text|Tokenizer rules|Token IDs|Embedding lookup" />

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