Mind Map #03 LLM Notes

The LLM Ecosystem — Landscape Map

Eight branches of the Large Language Model world, visualised

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Architecture ▸ Transformer layers ▸ Self-attention heads ▸ Feed-forward network Concepts ▸ Tokens & vocabulary ▸ Embeddings ▸ Context window Models ▸ GPT-4o / o3 ▸ Claude / Gemini ▸ Llama / Mistral Applications ▸ Coding assistants ▸ Document analysis ▸ Search & RAG Deployment ▸ Cloud API ▸ Self-hosted ▸ Edge / on-device Limitations ▸ Hallucination ▸ Knowledge cutoff ▸ Bias & cost Training ▸ Pre-training ▸ Fine-tuning (SFT) ▸ RLHF / DPO Techniques ▸ Prompt engineering ▸ Chain-of-thought ▸ Agentic loops LLM ECOSYSTEM
Branches: Architecture Concepts Models Applications Deployment Limitations Training Techniques