Julian Henry

Back-of-the-Envelope: Attention is All You Need

03 Sep 2024

“Attention is All You Need” demands attention because of its profound impact. Given its impact in LLM development, the transformer with attention is a bona fide e=m*c^2 of our time.

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At the moment, I am unable to do the topic more justice then the attached resources.

Good luck, and I hope your attention mechanism finds the right weights to understand the topic!

Resources (in order of comprehensability)

Python code, mathematics and individual topics developed

Peter Bloem

Visualization and Tailored Examples

Souvik Mandal

Solid Commentary on Original Paper

Yannic Kilcher

Original Paper

Attention is All You Need