transformer-architecture-deepdive

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Demystify Transformers: attention, position, and variants.

Authortachyon-beep
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides a deep dive into the core mechanics of Transformer architectures, explaining self-attention, position encoding, and various architectural variants. It helps you implement, debug, and optimize Transformers, ensuring you understand the "why" behind their design choices for NLP and vision tasks.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Self-Attention Mastery: Understand the information retrieval analogy, mathematical breakdown, and the role of Q, K, V matrices.
  • Position Encoding Selection: Choose between sinusoidal, learned, RoPE, or ALiBi position encodings for optimal performance and extrapolation.
  • Use Case: You're building a custom language model and need to decide between an encoder-only or decoder-only architecture. This skill clarifies the trade-offs, guiding you to use a decoder-only model with causal masking for text generation.

Quick Start

Explain how self-attention works and why Transformers need position encoding.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

torch

Components

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Name: transformer-architecture-deepdive
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