Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) - Build an LLM from Scratch 3: Coding attention mechanisms

Links to the book: - https://amzn.to/4fqvn0D (Amazon) - https://mng.bz/M96o (Manning) Link to the GitHub repository: https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch This is a supplementary video explaining how attention mechanisms (self-attention, causal attention, multi-head attention) work by coding them from scratch. 00:00 3.3.1 A simple self-attention mechanism without trainable weights 41:01 3.3.2 Computing attention weights for all input tokens 52:40 3.4.1 Computing the attention weights step by step 1:12:33 3.4.2 Implementing a compact SelfAttention class 1:21:00 3.5.1 Applying a causal attention mask 1:32:33 3.5.2 Masking additional attention weights with dropout 1:38:05 3.5.3 Implementing a compact causal self-attention class 1:46:55 3.6.1 Stacking multiple single-head attention layers 1:58:55 3.6.2 Implementing multi-head attention with weight splits You can find additional bonus materials on GitHub: Comparing Efficient Multi-Head Attention Implementations, https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/blob/main/ch05/02_alternative_weight_loading/weight-loading-hf-transformers.ipynb Understanding PyTorch Buffers, https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/tree/main/ch03/03_understanding-buffers