Transformer, Positions and the Future Mask

3 min
Audience
ages 10–15
Duration
30 to 40 min
Adventure
6/8
Badge to earn
Transformer Architect

Today's mission

Assemble a Transformer block and apply a causal mask that stops a token from seeing the future.

Proof of success: explain "Transformer, positions and the future mask", complete "The Visibility Triangle" and name the limit of the analogy.

The story

To finish a story card by card, Imran builds a model that processes several positions together. Without position information, attention receives no clue distinguishing the first spot from the fourth; Imran therefore adds that clue. In a causal generative model, card number 3 may only consult 1, 2 and 3. A mask makes future positions inaccessible. After attention come the residual connection, normalization and a feed-forward network.

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