Self Attention (Shared KV)

Attention: 6 of 11

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1. QKV Projection

2. Attention Computation

3. Self Attention

4. Cross Attention

5. Self Attention vs Cross Attention

6. Self Attention (Shared KV)

7. Multi-Head Attention

8. Fused QKV (Multi-Head)

9. Single vs Multi-Head Attention

10. Multi-Query Attention

11. Grouped-Query Attention

I hope the midnight dog story has helped build good intuition for what queries, keys, and values actually do. From here, the series shifts to mechanics and engineering trade-offs.

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