Attention Mechanism in Large Language Models

This basic explanation of the Attention Mechanism in LLMs was part of a teaching session with Google’s Gemini 2.0 Pro. Let’s break down the attention mechanism in Large Language Models (LLMs) step-by-step. Step 1: The Problem with Traditional Sequence Models Before attention, models like Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and LSTMs processed sequences (like sentences) one…