Researcher faults standard Transformer diagrams for hiding self-attention as a black box
PlisSergey · x · 2026-10-10
Sergey Plis shared and praised a Transformer explainer video, but criticized the traditional diagrams used to teach the architecture as uninformative: self-attention, the only genuinely interesting component, is typically drawn as a plain rectangular block. He offers an alternative visualization that exposes the mechanism's internals instead.
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