Transformers and Attention, Visually

How LLMs Work Intermediate 3 min read Published
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Read this sentence: *”Riya put the laptop in her bag because it was raining.”* What does it refer to? Not the laptop, not the bag: the weather. You knew instantly because you looked at the other words for clues.

Attention gives a model the same ability. When processing each token, the model scores how relevant every other token is, then mixes in information from the relevant ones. A transformer is a stack of many attention layers, and it’s the “T” in GPT.

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