@currying: Very nice 13-page exposition!
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A tweet highlights 'Understanding Transformers and Attention Mechanisms,' a 13-page paper that explains the Transformer architecture and attention from an applied mathematics perspective.
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Very nice 13-page exposition!
Antonio Lupetti (@antoniolupetti): “Understanding Transformers and Attention Mechanisms” is a very interesting paper that presents the Transformer architecture from the perspective of applied mathematics.
It starts by representing text as vectors and explains mathematically how the attention mechanism processes
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