Free YouTube Transcript Generator: Any Video, 100+ Languages
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Welcome back to the channel, today we're breaking down how transformers actually work, step by step.
The attention mechanism lets the model weigh every token against every other token in the sequence. That is the core idea.
And critically, this happens in parallel: which is why transformers scale so much better than RNNs on modern GPUs.
Let's walk through a concrete example with the sentence 'the cat sat on the mat' and trace the attention scores.
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Timestamped Transcript
[00:00] Welcome back to the channel, today we're breaking down transformers, step by step. [01:24] The attention mechanism lets the model weigh every token against every other token in the sequence. [04:08] And critically, this happens in parallel, which is why transformers scale on modern GPUs.
SRT Subtitle Export
1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,200 Welcome back to the channel, today we're breaking down transformers. 2 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:31,500 The attention mechanism lets the model weigh every token against every other token.
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