Unpacking the Transformer: From Embeddings to Multi‑Head Attention
This article provides a comprehensive, step‑by‑step walkthrough of the Transformer architecture, covering input embedding, positional encoding, the mechanics of Q‑K‑V attention, scaled dot‑product formulas, multi‑head and masked attention, feed‑forward networks, residual connections, layer normalization, decoder generation, and recent attention‑optimization techniques.
