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Tag: attention

Vision Transformers

2025-12-01 Video AIAYN BERT attention basics image What if we applied the "attention is all you need" architecture to images instead of language? That's the question considered in this paper from 2021, which laid the groundwork for today's multi-modal models. Access: $ Basic

Embeddings from generative models

2025-08-01 Video theory applications attention Mistral For text generation you usually want a "decoder" model; for other text tasks you usually want an "encoder." Here we look at modifying a decoder model to change it into an encoder. Access: $ Basic

Bidirectional attention and BERT: Taking off the mask

2025-08-01 Video model-intro text BERT attention Introduction to BERT, a transformer-type model with bidirectional attention, suited to interesting tasks other than plain generation. This was one of the first powerful models to have open weights; and it remains a common baseline to which new models can be compared. Access: $ Basic

Grammar is all you get

2025-08-01 Video model-intro basics text AIAYN attention An overview of the classic "Attention is all you need" paper, with focus on the attention mechanism and its resemblance to dependency grammar. Access: $ Basic