Reasoning trace

A recorded sequence of intermediate model or agent steps. It supports debugging when authentic and complete, but providers may summarize, hide, or generate traces separately from hidden computation.

Models and generation

How a model produces text, what its training and decoding controls change, and what none of them can prove about a source.

Autoregressive model · Transformer · Attention · Self-attention · Parameter · Inference · Pretraining · Fine-tuning · Supervised fine-tuning · Instruction tuning · RLHF · Preference optimization · Knowledge distillation · Quantization · Mixture of experts · Multimodal model · Vision-language model · Small language model · Tokenizer · Temperature · Top-p sampling · Deterministic decoding · System prompt · Developer message · Tool call · Function calling · Structured output · Constrained decoding · Chain of thought · Context caching · Context compaction · Model routing · Model drift · Model version

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