Inside AI

Illustrated: Self-Attention

A step-by-step guide to self-attention with illustrations and code

Towards Data Science
9 min readNov 18, 2019

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The illustrations are best viewed on the Desktop. A Colab version can be found here (thanks to Manuel Romero!).

Changelog:
30 Dec 2022 — Use Medium’s new code block for syntax highlighting
12 Jan 2022 — Improve clarity
5 Jan 2022 — Fix

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