Contained in the Matrix: Visualizing Matrix Multiplication, Consideration and Past

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Use 3D to visualise matrix multiplication expressions, consideration heads with actual weights, and extra.

Matrix multiplications (matmuls) are the constructing blocks of in the present day’s ML fashions. This observe presents mm, a visualization device for matmuls and compositions of matmuls.

As a result of mm makes use of all three spatial dimensions, it helps construct instinct and spark concepts with much less cognitive overhead than the standard squares-on-paper idioms, particularly (although not solely) for visible/spatial thinkers.

And with three dimensions obtainable for composing matmuls, together with the flexibility to load skilled weights, we are able to visualize huge, compound expressions like consideration heads and observe how they really behave, utilizing im.

mm is totally interactive, runs in the browser or notebook iframes and retains its full state within the URL, so hyperlinks are shareable classes (the screenshots and movies on this observe all have hyperlinks that open the visualizations within the device). This reference guide describes all the obtainable performance.

We’ll first introduce the visualization method, construct instinct by visualizing some easy matmuls and expressions, then dive into some extra prolonged examples:

1. Pitch – why is this fashion of visualizing higher?
2. Warmup – animations – watching the canonical matmul decompositions in motion
3. Warmup – expressions – a fast tour of some basic expression constructing blocks
4. Inside an consideration head – an in-depth take a look at the construction, values and computation habits of a few consideration heads from GPT2 by way of NanoGPT
5. Parallelizing consideration – visualizing consideration head parallelization with examples from the current Blockwise Parallel Transformer paper
6. Sizes in an consideration layer – what do the MHA and FFA halves of an consideration layer appear to be collectively, after we visualize a complete layer as a single construction? How does the image change throughout autoregressive decoding?
7. LoRA – a visible clarification of this elaboration of the eye head structure
8. Wrapup – subsequent steps and name for suggestions

1 Pitch

mm’s visualization method relies on the premise that matrix multiplication is basically a three-dimensional operation.

In different phrases this:

is a sheet of paper attempting to be this (open in mm):

After we wrap the matmul round a dice this fashion, the proper relationships between argument shapes, outcome form and shared dimensions all fall into place.

Now the computation makes geometric sense: every location i, j within the outcome matrix anchors a vector working alongside the depth dimension okay within the dice’s inside, the place the horizontal airplane extending from row i in L and a vertical airplane extending from column j in R intersect. Alongside this vector, pairs of (i, okay) (okay, j) parts from the left and proper arguments meet and are multiplied, and the ensuing merchandise are summed alongside okay and the result’s deposited in location i, j of the outcome.

(Leaping forward momentarily, here’s an animation.)

That is the intuitive that means of matrix multiplication:

1. challenge two orthogonal matrices into the inside of a dice
2. multiply the pair of values at every intersection, forming a grid of merchandise
3. sum alongside the third orthogonal dimension to provide a outcome matrix.

For orientation, the device shows an arrow within the dice’s inside that factors in direction of the outcome matrix, with a blue vane coming from the left argument and a red vane coming from the right argument. The device additionally shows white tips to point the row axis of every matrix, although they’re faint on this screenshot.

The structure constraints are simple:

• left argument and outcome should be adjoined alongside their shared peak (i) dimension
• proper argument and outcome should be adjoined alongside their shared width (j) dimension
• left and proper arguments should be adjoined alongside their shared (left width/proper peak) dimension, which turns into the matmul’s depth (okay) dimension

This geometry offers us a stable basis for visualizing all the usual matmul decompositions, and an intuitive foundation for exploring nontrivially complicated compositions of matmuls, as we’ll see under.

2 Warmup – animations

Earlier than diving into some extra complicated examples, we’ll run by means of a number of instinct builders to get a really feel for a way issues feel and appear on this model of visualization.

2a Dot product

First, the canonical algorithm – computing every outcome factor by taking the dot product of the corresponding left row and proper column. What we see within the animation is the sweep of multiplied worth vectors by means of the dice’s inside, every delivering a summed outcome on the corresponding place.

Right here, L has blocks of rows crammed with 1 (blue) or -1 (purple); R has column blocks crammed equally. okay is 24 right here, so the outcome matrix (L @ R) has blue values of 24 and purple values of -24 (open in mm – lengthy click on or control-click to examine values):

2b Matrix-vector merchandise

A matmul decomposed into matrix-vector merchandise appears to be like like a vertical airplane (a product of the left argument with every column of the correct argument) portray columns onto the outcome because it sweeps horizontally by means of the dice’s inside (open in mm):

Observing the intermediate values of a decomposition could be fairly attention-grabbing, even in easy examples.

As an example, observe the outstanding vertical patterns within the intermediate matrix-vector merchandise after we use randomly initialized arguments- reflecting the truth that every intermediate is a column-scaled reproduction of the left argument (open in mm):

2c Vector-matrix merchandise

A matmul decomposed into vector-matrix merchandise appears to be like like a horizontal airplane portray rows onto the outcome because it descends by means of the dice’s inside (open in mm):

Switching to randomly initialized arguments, we see patterns analogous to these we noticed with matrix-vector merchandise – solely this time the patterns are horizontal, similar to the truth that every intermediate vector-matrix product is a row-scaled reproduction of the correct argument.

When enthusiastic about how matmuls specific the rank and construction of their arguments, it’s helpful to ascertain each of those patterns taking place concurrently within the computation (open in mm):

Right here’s another instinct builder utilizing vector-matrix merchandise, displaying how the identification matrix features precisely like a mirror set at a 45deg angle to each its counterargument and the outcome (open in mm):

second Summed outer merchandise

The third planar decomposition is alongside the okay axis, computing the matmul outcome by a pointwise summation of vector outer merchandise. Right here we see the airplane of outer merchandise sweeping the dice “from again to entrance”, accumulating into the outcome (open in mm):

Utilizing randomly initialized matrices with this decomposition, we are able to see not simply values however rank accumulate within the outcome, as every rank-1 outer product is added to it.

Amongst different issues this builds instinct for why “low-rank factorization” – i.e. approximating a matrix by developing a matmul whose arguments are small within the depth dimension – works greatest when the matrix being approximated is low rank. LoRA in a later part (open in mm):

3 Warmup – expressions

How can we lengthen this visualization method to compositions of matmuls? Our examples to date have all visualized a single matmul L @ R of some matrices L and R – what about when L and/or R are themselves matmuls, and so forth transitively?

It seems we are able to lengthen the method properly to compound expressions. The important thing guidelines are easy: the subexpression (baby) matmul is one other dice, topic to the identical structure constraints because the father or mother, and the outcome face of the kid is concurrently the corresponding argument face of the father or mother, like a covalently shared electron.

Inside these constraints, we’re free to rearrange the faces of a kid matmul nevertheless we like. Right here we use the device’s default scheme, which generates alternating convex and concave cubes – this structure works properly in follow to maximise use of area and decrease occlusion. (Layouts are fully customizable, nevertheless – see the reference for particulars.)

On this part we’ll visualize among the key constructing blocks we discover in ML fashions, to achieve fluency within the visible idiom and to see what intuitions even easy examples can provide us.

3a Left-associative expressions

We’ll take a look at two expressions of the shape (A @ B) @ C, every with its personal distinctive form and character. (Be aware: mm adheres to the conference that matrix multiplication is left-associative and writes this merely as A @ B @ C.)

First we’ll give A @ B @ C the attribute FFN form, by which the “hidden dimension” is wider than the “enter” or “output” dimensions. (Concretely within the context of this instance, which means the width of B is bigger than the widths of A or C.)

As within the single matmul examples, the floating arrows level in direction of the outcome matrix, blue vane coming from the left argument and purple vane from proper argument (open in mm):

Subsequent we’ll visualize A @ B @ C with the width of B narrower than that of A or C, giving it a bottleneck or “autoencoder” form (open in mm):

This sample of alternating convex and concave blocks extends to chains of arbitrary size: for instance this multilayer bottleneck (open in mm):

3b Proper associative expressions

Subsequent we’ll visualize a right-associative expression A @ (B @ C).

In the identical means left-associative expressions lengthen horizontally – sprouting from the left argument of the basis expression, so to talk – right-associative chains lengthen vertically, sprouting from the basis’s proper argument.

One typically sees an MLP formulated right-associatively, i.e. with columnar enter on the correct and weight layers working proper to left. Utilizing the matrices from the 2-layer FFN instance pictured above – suitably transposed – right here’s what that appears like, with C now taking part in the position of the enter, B the primary layer and A the second layer (open in mm):

Apart: along with the colour of the arrow vanes (blue for left, purple for proper), a second visible cue for distinguishing left and proper arguments is their orientation: the rows of the left argument are coplanar with these of the outcome – they stack alongside the identical axis (i). Each cues inform us for instance that B is the left argument to (B @ C) above.

3c Binary expressions

For a visualization device to be helpful past easy didactic examples, visualizations want to stay legible as expressions get extra difficult. A key structural element in real-world use circumstances is binary expressions – matmuls with subexpressions on each the left and proper.

Right here we’ll visualize the best such expression form, (A @ B) @ (C @ D) (open in mm):

3d Fast apart: partitioning and parallelism

A full presentation of this matter is out of scope for this observe, although we’ll see it in motion later within the context of consideration heads. However as a warmup, two fast examples ought to give a way of how this model of visualization makes reasoning about parallelizing compound expressions very intuitive, by way of the straightforward geometry of partitioning.

Within the first instance we’ll apply the canonical “knowledge parallel” partitioning to the left-associative multilayer bottleneck instance above. We partition alongside i, segmenting the preliminary left argument (“batch”) and all intermediate outcomes (“activations”), however not one of the subsequent arguments (“weights”) – the geometry making it apparent which contributors within the expression are segmented and which stay entire (open in mm):

The second instance would (for me, anyway) be a lot tougher to construct instinct about with out clear geometry to help it: it reveals how a binary expression could be parallelized by partitioning the left subexpression alongside its j axis, the correct subexpression alongside its i axis, and the father or mother expression alongside its okay axis (open in mm):

4 Inside an Consideration Head

Let’s take a look at a GPT2 consideration head – particularly layer 5, head 4 of the “gpt2” (small) configuration (layers=12, heads=12, embed=768) from NanoGPT, utilizing OpenAI weights by way of HuggingFace. Enter activations are taken from a ahead go on an OpenWebText coaching pattern of 256 tokens.

There’s nothing notably uncommon about this specific head; I selected it primarily as a result of it computes a reasonably widespread consideration sample and lives in the course of the mannequin, the place activations have grow to be structured and present some attention-grabbing texture. (Apart: in a subsequent observe I’ll current an consideration head explorer that permits you to visualize all layers and heads of this mannequin, together with some journey notes.)

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4a Construction

The whole consideration head is visualized as a single compound expression, beginning with enter and ending with projected output. (Be aware: to maintain issues self-contained we do per-head output projection as described in Megatron-LM.)

The computation accommodates six matmuls:

Q = enter @ wQ        // 1
K_t = wK_t @ input_t  // 2
V = enter @ wV        // 3
attn = sdpa(Q @ K_t)  // 4
head_out = attn @ V   // 5
out = head_out @ wO   // 6

A thumbnail description of what we’re taking a look at:

• the blades of the windmill are matmuls 1, 2, 3 and 6: the previous group are the in-projections from enter to Q, Okay and V; the latter is the out-projection from attn @ V again to the embedding dimension.
• on the hub is the double matmul that first calculates consideration scores (convex dice in again), then makes use of them to provide output tokens from the values vector (concave dice in entrance). Causality implies that the eye scores type a decrease triangle.

However I’d encourage exploring this example in the tool itself, reasonably than counting on the screenshot or the video under to convey simply how a lot sign could be absorbed from it – each about its construction and the precise values flowing by means of the computation.

4b Computation and Values

Right here’s an animation of the eye head computation. Particularly, we’re watching

sdpa(enter @ wQ @ K_t) @ V @ wO

(i.e., matmuls 1, 4 , 5 and 6 above, with K_t and V precomputed) being computed as a fused chain of vector-matrix merchandise: every merchandise within the sequence goes all the best way from enter by means of consideration to output in a single step. Extra on this animation alternative within the later part on parallelization, however first let’s take a look at what the values being computed inform us.

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There’s a number of attention-grabbing stuff occurring right here.

• Earlier than we even get to the eye calculation, it’s fairly hanging how low-rank Q and K_t are. Zooming in on the Q @ K_t vector-matrix product animation, the scenario is much more vivid: a major variety of channels (embedding positions) in each Q and Okay look roughly fixed throughout the sequence, implying that the helpful consideration sign is doubtlessly pushed by a solely smallish subset of the embedding. Understanding and exploiting this phenomenon is likely one of the threads we’re pulling on as a part of the SysML ATOM transformer effectivity challenge.
• Maybe most acquainted is the strong-but-not-perfect diagonal that emerges within the consideration matrix. It is a widespread sample, displaying up in lots of the consideration heads of this mannequin (and people of many transformers). It produces localized consideration: the worth tokens within the small neighborhood instantly previous an output token’s place largely decide that output token’s content material sample.
• Nonetheless, the dimensions of this neighborhood and the affect of particular person tokens inside it fluctuate nontrivially – this may be seen each within the off-diagonal frost within the consideration grid, and within the fluctuating patterns of the attn[i] @ V vector-matrix product plane because it descends the eye matrix on its means by means of the sequence.
• However observe that the native neighborhood isn’t the one factor that’s attracting consideration: the leftmost column of the eye grid, similar to the primary token of the sequence, is solely crammed with nonzero (however fluctuating) values, that means each output token shall be influenced to some extent by the primary worth token.
• Furthermore there’s an inexact but discernible oscillation in attention score dominance between the present token neighborhood and the preliminary token. The interval of the oscillation varies, however broadly talking begins quick after which lengthens as one travels down the sequence (evocatively correlated with the amount of candidate consideration tokens for every row, given causality).
• To get a really feel for a way (attn @ V) is shaped, it’s essential to not concentrate on consideration in isolation – V is an equal participant. Every output merchandise is a weighted common of all the V vector: on the restrict when consideration is an ideal diagonal, attn @ V is solely an actual copy of V. Right here we see something more textured: seen banding the place specific tokens have scored excessive over a contiguous subsequence of consideration rows, superimposed on a matrix visibly much like to V however with some vertical smearing because of the fats diagonal. (Apart: per the mm reference guide, long-clicking or control-clicking will reveal the precise numeric values of visualized parts.)
• Keep in mind that since we’re in a center layer (5), the enter to this consideration head is an intermediate illustration, not the unique tokenized textual content. So the patterns seen in the input are themselves thought-provoking – particularly, the sturdy vertical threads are specific embedding positions whose values are uniformly excessive magnitude throughout lengthy stretches of the sequence – typically virtually all the factor.
• Curiously, although, the first vector in the input sequence is distinctive, not solely breaking the sample of those high-magnitude columns however carrying atypical values at virtually each place (apart: not visualized right here, however this sample is repeated over a number of pattern inputs).

Be aware: apropos of the final two bullet factors, it’s value reiterating that we’re visualizing computation over a single pattern enter. In follow I’ve discovered that every head has a attribute sample it can specific constantly (although not identically) over an honest assortment of samples (and the upcoming consideration head browser will present a set of samples to play with), however when taking a look at any visualization that features activations, it’s essential to remember {that a} full distribution of inputs could affect the concepts and intuitions it provokes it in delicate methods.

Lastly, another pitch to explore the animation directly!

4c Heads are completely different in attention-grabbing methods

Earlier than we transfer on, right here’s another demonstration of the usefulness of merely poking round a mannequin to see the way it works intimately.

That is one other consideration head from GPT2. It behaves fairly in a different way from layer 5, head 4 above – as one may anticipate, on condition that it’s in a really completely different a part of the mannequin. This head is within the very first layer: layer 0, head 2 (open in mm, could take a number of seconds to load mannequin weights):

Issues to notice:

• This head spreads consideration very evenly. This has the impact of delivering a comparatively unweighted common of V (or reasonably, the suitable causal prefix of V) to every row in attn @ V, as could be seen in this animation: as we transfer down the eye rating triangle, the attn[i] @ V vector-matrix product is small fluctuations away from being merely a downscaled, progressively revealed copy of V.
• attn @ V has striking vertical uniformity – in giant columnar areas of the embedding, the identical worth patterns persist over all the sequence. One can consider these as properties shared by each token.
• Apart: on the one hand one may anticipate some uniformity in attn @ V given the impact of very evenly unfold consideration. However every row has been constructed from solely a causal subsequence of V reasonably than the entire thing – why is that not inflicting extra variation, like a progressive morphing as one strikes down the sequence? By visual inspection V isn’t uniform along its length, so the reply should lie in some extra delicate property of its distribution of values.
• Lastly, this head’s output is even more vertically uniform after out-projection
• the sturdy impression being that the majority of the knowledge being delivered by this consideration head consists of properties that are shared by each token within the sequence. The composition of its output projection weights reinforces this instinct.

Total, it’s laborious to withstand the concept that the extraordinarily common, extremely structured info this consideration head produces may be obtained by computational means which can be a bit… much less lavish. After all this isn’t an unexplored space, however the specificity and richness of sign of the visualized computation has been helpful in producing new concepts, and reasoning about present ones.

4d Revisiting the pitch: invariants totally free

Stepping again, it’s value reiterating that the explanation we are able to visualize nontrivially compound operations like consideration heads and have them stay intuitive is that essential algebraic properties – like how argument shapes are constrained, or which parallelization axes intersect which operations – don’t require further considering: they come up straight from the geometry of the visualized object, reasonably than being further guidelines to bear in mind.

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For instance, in these consideration head visualizations it’s instantly apparent that

• Q and attn @ V are the identical size, Okay and V are the identical size, and the lengths of those pairs are impartial of one another
• Q and Okay are the identical width, V and attn @ V are the identical width, and the widths of those pairs are impartial of one another.

These properties are true by building, as a easy consequence of which elements of the compound construction the constituents inhabit and the way they’re oriented.

This “properties totally free” profit could be particularly helpful when exploring variations on a canonical construction – an apparent instance being the one-row-high consideration matrix in autoregressive token-at-a-time decoding (open in mm):

5 Parallelizing consideration

Within the animation of head 5, layer 4 above, we visualize 4 of the 6 matmuls within the consideration head

as a fused chain of vector-matrix merchandise, confirming the geometric instinct that all the left-associative chain from enter to output is laminar alongside the shared i axis, and could be parallelized.

5a Instance: partitioning alongside i

To parallelize the computation in follow, we’d partition the enter into blocks alongside the i axis. We will visualize this partition within the device, by specifying {that a} given axis be partitioned into a specific variety of blocks – in these examples we’ll use 8, however there’s nothing particular about that quantity.

Amongst different issues, this visualization makes clear that wQ (for in-projection), K_t and V (for consideration) and wO (for out-projection) are wanted of their entirety by every parallel computation, since they’re adjoining to the partitioned matrices alongside these matrices’ unpartitioned dimensions (open in mm):

5b Instance: double partitioning

For instance of partitioning alongside a number of axes, we are able to visualize some current work which innovates on this area (Block Parallel Transformer, constructing on work performed in e.g. Flash Attention and its antecedents).

First, BPT partitions alongside i as described above – and really extends this horizontal partitioning of the sequence into chunks all over the second (FFN) half of the eye layer as properly. (We’ll visualize this in a later part.)

To completely assault the context size downside, a second partitioning is then added to MHA – that of the eye calculation itself (i.e., a partition alongside the j axis of Q @ K_t). The 2 partitions collectively divide consideration right into a grid of blocks (open in mm):

This visualization makes clear

• the effectiveness of this double partitioning as an assault on the context size downside, since we’ve now visibly partitioned each incidence of sequence size within the consideration calculation
• the “attain” of this second partitioning: it’s clear from the geometry that the in-projection computations of Okay and V could be partitioned together with the core double matmul

Be aware one subtlety: the visible implication right here is that we are able to additionally parallelize the next matmul attn @ V alongside okay and sum the partial outcomes split-k style, thus parallelizing all the double matmul. However the row-wise softmax in sdpa() provides the requirement that every row have all its segments normalized earlier than the corresponding row of attn @ V could be computed, including an additional row-wise step between the eye calculation and the ultimate matmul.

6 Sizes in an Consideration Layer

The primary (MHA) half of an consideration layer is famously computationally demanding due to its quadratic complexity, however the second (FFN) half is demanding in its personal proper because of the width of its hidden dimension, sometimes 4 occasions that of the mannequin’s embedding dimension. Visualizing the biomass of a full consideration layer could be helpful in constructing instinct about how the 2 halves of the layer evaluate to one another.

6a Visualizing the complete layer

Under is a full consideration layer with the primary half (MHA) within the background and the second (FFN) within the foreground. As normal, arrows level within the path of computation.

Notes:

• This visualization doesn’t depict particular person consideration heads, however as a substitute reveals the unsliced Q/Okay/V weights and projections surrounding a central double matmul. After all this isn’t a devoted visualization of the complete MHA operation – however the objective right here is to provide a clearer sense of the relative matrix sizes within the two halves of the layer, reasonably than the relative quantities of computation every half performs. (Additionally, randomized values are used reasonably than actual weights.)
• The scale used listed here are downsized to maintain the browser (comparatively) comfortable, however the proportions are preserved (from NanoGPT’s small config): mannequin embedding dimension = 192 (from 768), FFN embedding dimension = 768 (from 3072), sequence size = 256 (from 1024), though sequence size will not be basic to the mannequin. (Visually, adjustments in sequence size would seem as adjustments within the width of the enter blades, and consequently within the measurement of the eye hub and the peak of the downstream vertical planes.)

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6b Visualizing the BPT partitioned layer

Revisiting Blockwise Parallel Transformer briefly, right here we visualize BPT’s parallelization scheme within the context of a complete consideration layer (with particular person heads elided per above). Particularly, observe how the partitioning alongside i (of sequence blocks) extends by means of each MHA and FFN halves (open in mm):

6c Partitioning the FFN

The visualization suggests a further partitioning, orthogonal to those described above – within the FFN half of the eye layer, splitting the double matmul (attn_out @ FFN_1) @ FFN_2, first alongside j for attn_out @ FFN_1, then alongside okay within the subsequent matmul with FFN_2. This partition slices each layers of FFN weights, decreasing the capability necessities of every participant within the computation at the price of a ultimate summation of the partial outcomes.

Right here’s what this partition appears to be like like utilized to an in any other case unpartitioned consideration layer (open in mm):

And right here it’s utilized to a layer partitioned a la BPT (open in mm):

6d Visualizing token-at-a-time decoding

Throughout autoregressive token-at-a-time decoding, the question vector consists of a single token. It’s instructive to have a psychological image of what an consideration layer appears to be like like in that scenario – a single embedding row working its means by means of an unlimited tiled airplane of weights.

Other than the emphasizing the sheer immensity of weights in comparison with activations, this view can be evocative of the notion that K_t and V perform like dynamically generated layers in a 6-layer MLP, though the mux/demux computations of MHA itself (papered over right here, per above) make the correspondence inexact (open in mm):

7 LoRA

The current LoRA paper (LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models) describes an environment friendly finetuning approach based mostly on the concept that weight deltas launched throughout finetuning are low-rank. Per the paper, this “permits us to coach some dense layers in a neural community not directly by optimizing rank decomposition matrices of the dense layers’ change throughout adaptation […], whereas maintaining the pre-trained weights frozen.”

7a The fundamental thought

In a nutshell, the important thing transfer is to coach the components of a weight matrix reasonably than the matrix itself: substitute an I x J weights tensor with a matmul of an I x Okay tensor and a Okay x J tensor, holding Okay to some small quantity.

If Okay is sufficiently small the dimensions win could be large, however the tradeoff is that reducing it lowers the rank of what the product can specific. As a fast illustration of each the dimensions financial savings and the structuring impact on the outcome, right here’s a matmul of random 128 x 4 left and 4 x 128 proper arguments – a.okay.a. a rank-4 factorization of a 128 x 128 matrix. Discover the vertical and horizontal patterning in L @ R (open in mm):

7b Making use of LoRA to an consideration head

The way in which LoRA applies this factoring transfer to the advantageous tuning course of is to

• create a low-rank factorization for every weight tensor to be fine-tuned and prepare the components, maintaining the unique weights frozen
• after advantageous tuning, multiply every pair of low-rank components to get a matrix within the form of the unique weights tensor, and add it to the unique pretrained weights tensor

The next visualization reveals an consideration head with the burden tensors wQ, wK_t, wV, wO changed by low rank factorizations wQ_A @ wQ_B, and so forth. Visually, the issue matrices present up as low fences alongside the sides of the windmill blades (open in mm – spacebar stops the spin):

8 Wrapup

8a Name for suggestions

I’ve discovered this fashion of visualizing matmul expressions extraordinarily useful for constructing instinct and reasoning about not simply matrix multiplication itself, but in addition many points of ML fashions and their computation, from effectivity to interpretability.

when you strive it out and have recommendations or feedback, I undoubtedly need to hear, both within the feedback right here or in the repo.

8b Subsequent steps

• There’s a GPT2 attention head explorer constructed on prime of the device which I’m at the moment utilizing to stock and classify the eye head traits present in that mannequin. (This was the device I used to search out and discover the eye heads on this observe.) As soon as full I plan to put up a observe with the stock.
• As talked about up prime, embedding these visualizations in Python notebooks is dead simple. However session URLs can get… unwieldy, so it will likely be helpful to have Python-side utilities for developing them from configuration objects, much like the straightforward JavaScript helpers used within the reference guide.
• In the event you’ve received a use case you suppose may profit from visualizations like this nevertheless it’s not apparent the right way to use the device to do it, get in contact! I’m not essentially trying to develop its core visualization capabilities that a lot additional (proper device for the job, and so forth.), however e.g. the API for driving it programmatically is fairly primary, there’s lots that may be performed there.