An intuitive explanation of Self Attention

A step-by-step explanation of the multi-headed self-attention block

Saketh Kotamraju
Towards Data Science
10 min readOct 7, 2020

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Source: Attention is All you need

In this article, I am going to explain everything you need to know about self-attention.

What do transformer neural networks contain that make them so much more powerful and better performing than regular recurrent neural networks?

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My name is Saketh Kotamraju. I am a highschooler who is very interested in Natural Language processing. I write articles to share what I’ve learned!