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Conditional Probability of the Next Element in a Sequence
The formula represents the conditional probability of the next element in a sequence, , given all the preceding elements, . The subscript indicates that this probability is estimated by a model with parameters . This is a fundamental concept in autoregressive models, such as language models, which generate sequences one element at a time based on the history of previously generated elements.

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Ch.1 Pre-training - Foundations of Large Language Models
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