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Large Language Models · Quiz 2 · 12 Apr 2026 · January 2026 term

Question 8: Select all correct statements regarding the comparison be…

Question 8

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Select all correct statements regarding the comparison between RNNs and Transformers.

Select all that apply.

  1. A
  2. B

    Transformers process tokens strictly sequentially during training in the same way as RNNs.

  3. C

    Transformers allow for significantly more parallelization during training compared to RNNs.

  4. D

    Attention mechanisms in Transformers utilize Query, Key, and Value vectors derived from input embeddings.

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  • A
  • C

    Transformers allow for significantly more parallelization during training compared to RNNs.

  • D

    Attention mechanisms in Transformers utilize Query, Key, and Value vectors derived from input embeddings.

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Question 8 of 21 in the IIT Madras BS Large Language Models (LLM) Quiz 2 paper sat on 12 Apr 2026, in the January 2026 term (Large Language Models 07 Apr 26). It carries 3 marks.

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