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Self-Attention by hand ✍️ Excel ~ I designed this exercise for students to practice the QKV math. I also created a medium and a large version to show how the attention matrix grows quadratically as the sequence gets longer. 👇Join the 'AI Math' community. Download xlsx.

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Tom Yeh1 year ago

Download xlsx from Github:

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tetsuo.ai - e/acc1 year ago

🤍

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Yu Yang1 year ago

This is cool! Finally my project is now related to LLM, and I got time to read those high impact papers. Your approach of using excel file provides a solid step to understand attention mechanism!

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Gene Sh1 year ago

Love this hands-on approach! Practicing self-attention mechanics in Excel really helps solidify understanding. Anyone tried the medium or large versions? #AILearning

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Frank Dellaert1 year ago

These are really great!

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Kandy1 year ago

invaluable work

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Brok1 year ago

Very helpful, keep up the great work👏👏

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Fredd Villabona C.1 year ago

This looks amazing, thanks for sharing! 💯

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Jie Wang1 year ago

another wtf moment during my ML study journey it is creative and interesting to see such an interactable transformer

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