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Glyph AI — CS 261: Machine Learning · Lecture 18
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CS 261 · Lecture 18: Transformer Architecture & Attention Mechanisms

Dr. Amanda Foster — Stanford University, Computer Science Department

Key Concepts Covered

Self-Attention Mechanism

Each token in the input sequence attends to every other token simultaneously. The attention score is computed as Q·Kᵀ / √dₖ — where Q = Query, K = Key, V = Value. Higher dk leads to smaller gradients if not scaled.

Multi-Head Attention

Instead of one attention function, run h parallel attention operations with different learned projections. Each head learns to attend to different aspects of the input. Outputs are concatenated then linearly projected.

Positional Encoding

Transformers have no inherent sense of sequence order — positional encodings (sinusoidal or learned) are added to token embeddings to inject position information before the attention layers.

Chapters

00:00 — Introduction: limitations of RNNs that Transformers solve

11:42 — The Attention mechanism: intuition and formal definition

28:55 — Multi-head attention and why one head isn't enough

47:30 — Positional encodings: sinusoidal vs learned

1:06:14 — Feed-forward sublayers and layer normalisation

1:18:40 — Q&A and problem set 3 walkthrough

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