What actually happens when you run an LLM on your PC? I made a visual breakdown of the inference pipeline
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I’ve been trying to understand what is actually happening between pressing Enter and seeing the first token appear when running a model locally. So I put together a visual explanation covering the full inference path: how the prompt becomes tokens what the model weights are doing how tokens move th…
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- 2026-09-07 17:19 · r/machinelearningnews
What actually happens when you run an LLM on your PC? I made a visual breakdown of the inference pipeline - 2026-09-07 17:18 · r/machinelearningnews
What actually happens when you run an LLM on your PC? I made a visual breakdown of the inference pipeline - 2026-09-07 16:59 · r/LocalLLM
What actually happens when you run an LLM on your PC? I made a visual breakdown of the inference pipeline - 2026-09-07 16:59 · r/learnmachinelearning
What actually happens when you run an LLM on your PC? I made a visual breakdown of the inference pipeline