Generative AI: A Beginner’s Viewpoint Part 2
Last Updated on October 15, 2025 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Rashmi
Originally published on Towards AI.
The Architecture part of Gen AI Systems a brief Understanding
Generative AI architecture refers to the underlying neural network design — typically based on transformer models — that enables machines to learn data patterns and generate new content such as text, images, or audio. It includes components for data encoding, attention-based context understanding, and decoding, allowing the model to create coherent, human-like outputs from learned distributions.

The article explores various architectures used in generative AI systems, such as transformers, diffusion models, variational autoencoders (VAEs), and generative adversarial networks (GANs), detailing their mechanisms, strengths, and current trends. It highlights the importance of different architectures based on data types and trade-offs between performance and stability, and discusses emerging solutions for addressing common challenges in the field.
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