Pitfalls in Analyzing GPT-2 Attention Maps
A developer shared three misleading experiences when analyzing GPT-2's topology, revealing that initial structural features were merely threshold artifacts. The experiments disproved the assumption that attention heads maintain consistent functional roles across different inputs.
2026-07-16 ~ 2026-07-16 · 2 related posts
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