Context Window

How many requests or tokens can be processed per unit time; affects scalability and cost.

Architecture based on self-attention and feedforward layers; foundation of modern LLMs and many multimodal models.

Mechanism that computes context-aware mixtures of representations; scales well and captures long-range dependencies.

Attention where queries/keys/values come from the same sequence, enabling token-to-token interactions.

The set of tokens a model can represent; impacts efficiency, multilinguality, and handling of rare strings.