Grouped-Query Attention (GQA)
Learn how Grouped-Query Attention balances the quality of Multi-Head Attention with the efficiency of Multi-Query Attention, enabling faster inference in large language models.
Clear explanations of core machine learning concepts, from foundational ideas to advanced techniques. Understand attention mechanisms, transformers, skip connections, and more.
Learn how Grouped-Query Attention balances the quality of Multi-Head Attention with the efficiency of Multi-Query Attention, enabling faster inference in large language models.
Explore linear complexity attention mechanisms including Performer, Linformer, and other efficient transformers that scale to very long sequences.
Learn how masked attention enables autoregressive generation and prevents information leakage in transformers, essential for language models and sequential generation.
Understand Multi-Query Attention, the radical efficiency optimization that shares keys and values across all attention heads, enabling massive memory savings for inference.
Understand Rotary Position Embeddings, the elegant position encoding method that encodes relative positions through rotation matrices, used in LLaMA, GPT-NeoX, and most modern LLMs.
Master the fundamental building block of transformers - scaled dot-product attention. Learn why scaling is crucial and how the mechanism enables parallel computation.