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I have encountered that there are mainly three types of blogs/videos/tutorials talking about transformers

January 3, 2025 I have encountered that there are mainly three types of blogs/videos/tutorials talking about transformers Explaining how a transformer works (One of the best is Jay Alammar’s blog) Explaining the “Attention is all you need” paper (The Annotated Transformer) Coding tranformers in PyTorch (Coding a ChatGPT Like Transformer From Scratch in PyTorch) Each follows an amazing pedagogy, Helping one understand a singular concept from multiple point of views. (This blog has been highly influenced by the above works) Here I aim to: Give an intuition of how transformers work…

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related reading

• Everything About Transformerskrupadave.com
• The Illustrated Transformer – Jay Alammar – Visualizing machine learning one concept at a time.jalammar.github.io
• The Annotated Transformernlp.seas.harvard.edu
• Transformers from Scratche2eml.school
• A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuitstransformer-circuits.pub
• The Annotated Transformernlp.seas.harvard.edu
• Getting Caught Up to Modern LLM Research | Samarth Goeldev.samarthgoel.com
• Transformers Explained Visually (Part 3): Multi-head Attention, deep dive | Towards Data Sciencetowardsdatascience.com
• The Illustrated Transformer – Jay Alammar – Visualizing machine learning one concept at a time.jalammar.github.io
• Transformers from scratch | peterbloem.nlpeterbloem.nl
• Attention is all you need: Discovering the Transformer paper | Towards Data Sciencetowardsdatascience.com
• Thinking like Transformersrush.github.io