--- title: Ilya’s List, Part 14: Pointer Networks | daily.dev description: A brief, informal explanation of pointer networks — a neural network architecture where the output is a position index pointing to one of the input tokens... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ilya-s-list-part-14-pointer-networks-gd2mlvbzs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ilya’s List, Part 14: Pointer Networks | daily.dev og:description: A brief, informal explanation of pointer networks — a neural network architecture where the output is a position index pointing to one of the input tokens... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ilya-s-list-part-14-pointer-networks-gd2mlvbzs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Gd2mLvbZs.png og:image:alt: Ilya’s List, Part 14: Pointer Networks og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ilya’s List, Part 14: Pointer Networks **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A brief, informal explanation of pointer networks — a neural network architecture where the output is a position index pointing to one of the input tokens rather than a freely generated token. This constrains outputs to words present in the input, which limits hallucination. The post is part of a series covering Ilya Sutskever's 30 foundational AI papers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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