Self-Attention is not just “looking at important words.” It is a matrix operation. And that is...
Self-Attention is not just “looking at important words.”
It is a matrix operation.
And that is exactly why Transformers scale.
Core Idea
Self-Attention lets each token compare itself with every other token in the same sequence.
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