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Transformer

Posted on by lechuck park

From Claude with some prompting
The image is using an analogy of transforming vehicles to explain the concept of the Transformer architecture in AI language models like myself.

Just like how a vehicle can transform into a robot by having its individual components work in parallel, a Transformer model breaks down the input data (e.g. text) into individual elements (tokens/words). These elements then go through a series of self-attention and feed-forward layers, processing the relationships between all elements simultaneously and in parallel.

This allows the model to capture long-range dependencies and derive contextual meanings, eventually transforming the input into a meaningful representation (e.g. understanding text, generating language). The bottom diagram illustrates this parallel and interconnected nature of processing in Transformers.

So in essence, the image draws a clever analogy between transforming vehicles and how Transformer models process and “transform” input data into contextualized representations through its parallelized and self-attentive computations.

GPU works for

Posted on by lechuck park

From ChatGPT with some prompting
The image is a schematic representation of GPU applications across three domains, emphasizing the GPU’s strength in parallel processing:

Image Processing: GPUs are employed to perform parallel updates on image data, which is often in matrix form, according to graphical instructions, enabling rapid rendering and display of images.

Blockchain Processing: For blockchain, GPUs accelerate the calculation of new transaction hashes and the summing of existing block hashes. This is crucial in the race of mining, where the goal is to compute new block hashes as efficiently as possible.

Deep Learning Processing: In deep learning, GPUs are used for their ability to process multidimensional data, like tensors, in parallel. This speeds up the complex computations required for neural network training and inference.

A common thread across these applications is the GPU’s ability to handle multidimensional data structures—matrices and tensors—in parallel, significantly speeding up computations compared to sequential processing. This parallelism is what makes GPUs highly effective for a wide range of computationally intensive tasks.