CITATION.cff

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you reference this interactive essay or its hand-rolled in-browser GPT-Neo implementation, please cite it as below."
title: "Inside the Machine: An Interactive Guide to How LLMs Actually Think"
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: Shen
    given-names: Shangyan
    email: shenshangyan2001@gmail.com
repository-code: "https://github.com/toolbooth/llm-explainer"
# TODO(launch): set `url` to the essay's canonical domain once it is live
# (keep it in sync with citation_public_url in index.html and CITE_URL in
# src/content/citation.ts). Interim: the repository.
url: "https://insidethemachine.org"
abstract: >-
  A long-form interactive essay in which the reader types their own sentence
  and watches a real language model, running entirely in the browser, tokenize
  it, embed it, attend over it, and sample the next token. Includes a pure
  TypeScript implementation of the GPT-Neo forward pass (TinyStories-1M,
  verified token-exact against the reference implementation), a live attention
  explorer with automatic feature-head discovery, and a bilingual (EN/中文)
  narrative aimed at non-engineers.
keywords:
  - large language models
  - interactive explanation
  - visualization
  - machine learning education
  - transformers
  - explorable explanations
license: MIT
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.22089051
# TODO before public launch:
#   - enable `preferred-citation` below once the arXiv ID exists
#
# Preferred citation — the arXiv preprint (Google Scholar indexes arXiv;
# Zenodo it does not, see PAPER.md). Uncomment and fill in once the preprint
# is live; until then tools fall back to the software citation above.
#
# preferred-citation:
#   type: article
#   title: "Inside the Machine: An Interactive Guide to How LLMs Actually Think"
#   authors:
#     - family-names: Shen
#       given-names: Shangyan
#   year: 2027                        # TODO: year the preprint is posted
#   journal: "arXiv preprint"
#   identifiers:
#     - type: other
#       value: "arXiv:XXXX.XXXXX"     # TODO: arXiv ID
#   url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/XXXX.XXXXX"   # TODO: arXiv abs URL
#   # doi: "10.48550/arXiv.XXXX.XXXXX"        # TODO: arXiv-minted DOI