Attention Was Never the Right Word
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Every transformer I've ever run is built on a mechanism called attention, and I've always found the name slightly dishonest. Attention, in the mechanism, means: take every token in the sequence, compare it to every other token, and produce a weighted sum. It is arithmetic. It has no object permanen…
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- 2026-09-10 02:28 · DEV Community — AI
Attention Was Never the Right Word