Online softmax by hand
📰 Dev.to · Lewis Won
Learn to implement online softmax from scratch to improve your understanding of flash attention mechanisms
Action Steps
- Implement the softmax function using Python to understand its basics
- Apply the softmax function to a sample dataset to visualize its effects
- Configure a tiled softmax implementation to handle large input sequences
- Test the online softmax function with a toy example to verify its correctness
- Compare the results of online softmax with traditional softmax to understand the differences
Who Needs to Know This
Machine learning engineers and researchers can benefit from this tutorial to improve their skills in implementing attention mechanisms
Key Insight
💡 Online softmax can be used to improve the efficiency of attention mechanisms in machine learning models
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Key Takeaways
Learn to implement online softmax from scratch to improve your understanding of flash attention mechanisms
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Table of Contents Why study online softmax? The key to flash attention Conceptual overview: tiled...
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