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Quantity

Token

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a chunk of text — often a word-piece — that the model reads as one unit

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell isrepresent × L2. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointTokenNext-token prediction

Unlocks: Next-token prediction

What kind of thing it is — and what it is made of

It is part of: Tokenizer.

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

25Breaking Language into Piecesact 6 · The Attention Revolution

Where it comes from

bookSpeech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin · 2024

Every connection

All 2 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

Structure · 1
is part ofTokenizerMechanism
Order · 1
must come beforeNext-token predictionTask

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