Generating Sequence Representations with a Pre-trained Encoder
A pre-trained sequence encoding model, with its parameters optimized to , transforms an input sequence of tokens, , into a numerical representation, . This output, , is a sequence of real-valued vectors, , where each vector represents the token in its context. The entire output can be structured as a matrix by treating each vector as a row: The specific equation for this transformation is defined separately.

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Ch.1 Pre-training - Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models
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Consider a pre-trained sequence encoding model that generates a numerical representation H = {h_0, h_1, ..., h_m} for an input sequence of tokens x = {x_0, x_1, ..., x_m}. The vector h_i representing the token x_i will be the same regardless of the other tokens that appear alongside it in the input sequence.