Transformers Explained Visually
66 points by aray07 2 hours ago | 7 comments

andblac 12 minutes ago
Nicely done. For me the most fascinating thing about attention heads is the place where Attention matrix is already computed and is getting multiplied by Value vector. It behaves exactly like pushing Value vector through Dense layer of ordinary network where Attention matrix forms weights of that layer. So attention head is trained to construct this small single layer network dynamically during inference from Key and Query. And that's the point. That's rarely underlined in explanations of LLMs architecture and for me it's quite amazing that it works so well. This mechanism easy to observe in this particular visualization if you click through it.
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utopcell 31 minutes ago
Great site, intuitive description. I also found [1] very useful in the past.

[1] https://bbycroft.net/llm

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jwpapi 37 minutes ago
Damn that page took down my Chromebook, never happened before..
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shagie 15 minutes ago
Text under the "Examples" section...

"Try examples while GPT-2 model is being downloaded (600MB)"

That's a hefty chunk of download and likely compute too.

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jwpapi 33 minutes ago
twice...
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tanseydavid 39 minutes ago
Nice work. I really appreciate this tool for enhancing my limited understanding the mechanism(s) behind attention and LLMs.
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esseph 31 minutes ago
This is not at all what I was hoping for. Expected a lot more Unicron.
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