Understanding Attention in Transformers: The Core of Modern NLP
When people say “Transformers revolutionized NLP,” what they really mean is: Attention revolutionized NLP. From GPT and BERT to LLaMA and Claude, attention mechanisms are the beating heart of modern large language models. But what exactly is attention? Why is it so powerful? And how many types are there? Let’s dive in. 🧠 What is Attention? In the simplest sense, attention is a way for a model to focus on the most relevant parts of the input when generating output. ...