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AI Glossary / Decoder-Only

Decoder-Only

Decoder-only models (GPT-style) apply a causal mask so tokens attend only leftward. The same stack handles pretraining and generation.

They dominate open and closed LLM deployments due to scaling simplicity and unified training.

Related terms

  • Encoder–Decoder
  • Causal Language Model
  • Transformer

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