https://ailikeim5.dev Explanations of AI research papers for everyone. No PhD required, no gatekeeping. Written by someone learning in public. en https://ailikeim5.dev/post/understanding-attention-mechanisms/ https://ailikeim5.dev/post/understanding-attention-mechanisms/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A walkthrough of how transformers use attention to weigh different parts of the input, and why this simple idea powers modern language models.