LLM Prompt Laboratory

Prompt engineer workspace for token optimization, template presets, and multi-model debugging

Transformer Architecture Paradigms & 5 Pipeline Processing Stages
Compare BERT (Encoder-Only), GPT/LLaMA (Decoder-Only), and T5 (Encoder-Decoder) attention masks, pretraining objectives, and 5-stage pipeline processing.

Decoder-Only Architecture Profile Analysis

Representative Models: GPT-3/4, LLaMA 1/2/3, Qwen, DeepSeek, Mistral
Attention Type: Causal / Masked Attention (lower triangular mask)
Primary Tasks: Autoregressive Generation (Generative AI), Chat, Code Generation
Pre-training Objective: Causal Language Modeling (CLM: next-token prediction)
Decoder forces each Token to only attend to itself and preceding tokens, powering modern generative AI models.

Attention Mask Matrix Visualization

Token \ Attends ToLLMsunderstandhumanknowledge
LLMs1 (Visible)0 (Masked)0 (Masked)0 (Masked)
understand1 (Visible)1 (Visible)0 (Masked)0 (Masked)
human1 (Visible)1 (Visible)1 (Visible)0 (Masked)
knowledge1 (Visible)1 (Visible)1 (Visible)1 (Visible)

Transformer Forward Pass: 5 Pipeline Processing Stages

Stage 1: Embedding & Positional Encoding

Look up Token IDs to get word vectors X_embed and overlay Positional Encoding (Sinusoidal or RoPE) to inject sequence position info.

X_0 = \text{TokenEmbedding}(X) + \text{PositionalEncoding}(pos)