Posts tagged "self-attention"

The O(n²) Problem: Why Doubling Your Context Window Quadruples the Cost

Self-attention computes all pairwise interactions between tokens. For n tokens, that's n² computations. Here's the full mathematical derivation.

How the Transformer Attention Mechanism Actually Works (No Math Required)

The attention mechanism is the beating heart of every LLM. Here's how it decides which parts of your conversation matter most — explained with analogies before equations.