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# Attention - The Foundation of Modern AI
Welcome to the Attention module! This is where you'll implement the revolutionary mechanism that powers ChatGPT, BERT, GPT-4, and virtually all state-of-the-art AI systems.
## Learning Goals
- Understand attention as dynamic pattern matching with Query, Key, Value projections
- Implement scaled dot-product attention from mathematical foundations
- Master the attention formula that powers all transformer models
- Create masking utilities for different attention patterns
- Build the foundation for understanding modern AI architectures
## Build → Use → Understand
1. **Build**: Implement the core attention mechanism from scratch using mathematical principles
2. **Use**: Apply attention to sequence tasks and visualize attention patterns
3. **Understand**: How attention revolutionized AI by enabling global context modeling
## What You'll Learn
By the end of this module, you'll understand:
- How attention enables dynamic focus on relevant input parts
- The mathematical foundation behind all transformer models
- Why attention is more powerful than fixed convolution kernels
- How masking enables different attention patterns (causal, padding)
- The building block that powers ChatGPT, BERT, and modern AI
"""
# %% nbgrader={"grade": false, "grade_id": "attention-imports", "locked": false, "schema_version": 3, "solution": false, "task": false}
#| default_exp core.attention
#| export
import numpy as np
import math
import sys
import os
from typing import List, Union, Optional, Tuple
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# Import our building blocks - try package first, then local modules
try:
from tinytorch.core.tensor import Tensor
except ImportError:
# For development, import from local modules
sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', '02_tensor'))
from tensor_dev import Tensor
# %% nbgrader={"grade": false, "grade_id": "attention-welcome", "locked": false, "schema_version": 3, "solution": false, "task": false}
print("🔥 TinyTorch Attention Module")
print(f"NumPy version: {np.__version__}")
print(f"Python version: {sys.version_info.major}.{sys.version_info.minor}")
print("Ready to build attention mechanisms that power modern AI!")
# %% [markdown]
"""
## 📦 Where This Code Lives in the Final Package
**Learning Side:** You work in `modules/source/06_attention/attention_dev.py`
**Building Side:** Code exports to `tinytorch.core.attention`
```python
# Final package structure:
from tinytorch.core.attention import (
scaled_dot_product_attention, # Core attention function
SelfAttention, # Self-attention wrapper
create_causal_mask, # Masking utilities
create_padding_mask
)
from tinytorch.core.tensor import Tensor # Foundation
```
**Why this matters:**
- **Learning:** Focused module for deep understanding of core attention
- **Production:** Proper organization like PyTorch's attention functions
- **Consistency:** All attention mechanisms live together in `core.attention`
- **Foundation:** Building block for future transformer modules
"""
# %% [markdown]
"""
## 🔧 DEVELOPMENT
"""
# %% [markdown]
"""
## Step 1: Understanding Attention - The Revolutionary Mechanism
### What is Attention?
**Attention** is a mechanism that allows models to dynamically focus on relevant parts of the input. It's like having a spotlight that can shine on different parts of a sequence based on what's most important for the current task.
### The Fundamental Insight: Query, Key, Value
Attention works through three projections:
- **Query (Q)**: "What am I looking for?"
- **Key (K)**: "What information is available?"
- **Value (V)**: "What is the actual content?"
### Real-World Analogy: Library Search
Imagine searching in a library:
```
Query: "machine learning books" ← What you're looking for
Keys: ["AI", "ML", "physics", ...] ← Book category labels
Values: [book1, book2, book3, ...] ← Actual book contents
Attention: Look at all keys, find matches with query,
return weighted combination of corresponding values
```
### The Attention Formula
```
Attention(Q,K,V) = softmax(QK^T/√d_k)V
```
**Step by step:**
1. **Compute scores**: `QK^T` measures similarity between queries and keys
2. **Scale**: Divide by `√d_k` to prevent extremely large values
3. **Normalize**: `softmax` converts scores to probabilities
4. **Combine**: Weight the values by attention probabilities
### Why This Is Revolutionary
- **Dynamic weights**: Unlike fixed convolution kernels, attention adapts to input
- **Global connectivity**: Any position can attend to any other position directly
- **Interpretability**: Attention weights show what the model focuses on
- **Scalability**: Works for sequences of varying lengths
### Attention vs Convolution
| Aspect | Convolution | Attention |
|--------|-------------|-----------|
| **Receptive field** | Local, grows with depth | Global from layer 1 |
| **Computation** | O(n) with kernel size | O(n²) with sequence length |
| **Weights** | Fixed learned kernels | Dynamic input-dependent |
| **Best for** | Spatial data (images) | Sequential data (text) |
Let's implement this step by step!
"""
# %% [markdown]
"""
## Step 2: Implementing Scaled Dot-Product Attention
### The Core Attention Operation
This is the mathematical heart of all modern AI systems. Every transformer model (GPT, BERT, etc.) uses this exact operation.
### Mathematical Foundation
```
scores = QK^T / √d_k
attention_weights = softmax(scores)
output = attention_weights @ V
```
### Why Scale by √d_k?
- **Prevents saturation**: Large dot products → extreme softmax values → vanishing gradients
- **Stable training**: Keeps attention weights in a reasonable range
- **Mathematical insight**: Compensates for variance growth with dimension
Let's build the fundamental attention function!
"""
# %% nbgrader={"grade": false, "grade_id": "scaled-dot-product-attention", "locked": false, "schema_version": 3, "solution": true, "task": false}
#| export
def scaled_dot_product_attention(Q: Tensor, K: Tensor, V: Tensor,
mask: Optional[Tensor] = None) -> Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
"""
Scaled Dot-Product Attention - The foundation of all transformer models.
This is the exact mechanism used in GPT, BERT, and all modern language models.
TODO: Implement the core attention mechanism.
STEP-BY-STEP IMPLEMENTATION:
1. Get d_k (dimension of keys) from Q.shape[-1]
2. Compute attention scores: Q @ K^T (matrix multiplication)
3. Scale by √d_k: scores / sqrt(d_k)
4. Apply mask if provided: set masked positions to -1e9
5. Apply softmax to get attention weights (probabilities)
6. Apply attention weights to values: weights @ V
7. Return (output, attention_weights)
MATHEMATICAL OPERATION:
Attention(Q,K,V) = softmax(QK^T/√d_k)V
IMPLEMENTATION HINTS:
- Use np.matmul() for matrix multiplication
- Use np.swapaxes(K, -2, -1) to transpose last two dimensions
- Use math.sqrt() for square root
- Use np.where() for masking: np.where(mask == 0, -1e9, scores)
- Implement softmax manually: exp(x) / sum(exp(x))
- Use keepdims=True for broadcasting
LEARNING CONNECTIONS:
- This exact function powers ChatGPT, BERT, GPT-4
- The scaling prevents gradient vanishing in deep networks
- Masking enables causal (GPT) and bidirectional (BERT) models
- Attention weights are interpretable - you can visualize them!
Args:
Q: Query tensor of shape (..., seq_len_q, d_k)
K: Key tensor of shape (..., seq_len_k, d_k)
V: Value tensor of shape (..., seq_len_v, d_v)
mask: Optional mask tensor of shape (..., seq_len_q, seq_len_k)
Returns:
output: Attention output tensor (..., seq_len_q, d_v)
attention_weights: Attention probabilities tensor (..., seq_len_q, seq_len_k)
"""
### BEGIN SOLUTION
# Get the dimension for scaling
d_k = Q.shape[-1]
# Step 1: Compute attention scores (QK^T)
# This measures similarity between each query and each key
scores_data = np.matmul(Q.data, np.swapaxes(K.data, -2, -1))
# Step 2: Scale by √d_k to prevent exploding gradients
scores_data = scores_data / math.sqrt(d_k)
# Step 3: Apply mask if provided (for padding or causality)
if mask is not None:
# Replace masked positions with large negative values
# This makes softmax output ~0 for these positions
scores_data = np.where(mask.data == 0, -1e9, scores_data)
# Step 4: Apply softmax to get attention probabilities
# Each row sums to 1, representing where to focus attention
# Using numerically stable softmax
scores_max = np.max(scores_data, axis=-1, keepdims=True)
scores_exp = np.exp(scores_data - scores_max)
attention_weights_data = scores_exp / np.sum(scores_exp, axis=-1, keepdims=True)
# Step 5: Apply attention weights to values
output_data = np.matmul(attention_weights_data, V.data)
return Tensor(output_data), Tensor(attention_weights_data)
### END SOLUTION
# %% [markdown]
"""
## 🔧 DEVELOPMENT
### 🧪 Test Your Attention Implementation
Once you implement the `scaled_dot_product_attention` function above, run this cell to test it:
"""
# %% nbgrader={"grade": true, "grade_id": "test-attention-immediate", "locked": true, "points": 10, "schema_version": 3, "solution": false, "task": false}
def test_unit_scaled_dot_product_attention():
"""Unit test for the scaled dot-product attention implementation."""
print("🔬 Unit Test: Scaled Dot-Product Attention...")
# Define Q, K, V matrices
Q = Tensor(np.random.rand(4, 6))
K = Tensor(np.random.rand(4, 6))
V = Tensor(np.random.rand(4, 6))
print(f"📊 Input shapes: Q{Q.shape}, K{K.shape}, V{V.shape}")
# Test without mask
output, attention_weights = scaled_dot_product_attention(Q, K, V)
print(f"📊 Output shapes: output{output.shape}, weights{attention_weights.shape}")
# Check output shape
assert output.shape == (4, 6), f"Output shape should be (4, 6), got {output.shape}"
assert attention_weights.shape == (4, 4), f"Weights shape should be (4, 4), got {attention_weights.shape}"
# Check that attention weights sum to 1
weights_sum = np.sum(attention_weights.data, axis=-1)
assert np.allclose(weights_sum, 1.0), f"Attention weights should sum to 1, got {weights_sum}"
print("✅ Attention without mask works correctly")
# Test with mask
mask = Tensor(np.tril(np.ones((4, 4)))) # Lower triangular mask
output_masked, weights_masked = scaled_dot_product_attention(Q, K, V, mask)
# Check that masked weights are zero
masked_positions = weights_masked.data[0, 2] # Example of a masked position
# This is a bit tricky to assert directly due to softmax, but we can check if it's very small
assert masked_positions < 1e-6, f"Masked weights should be close to 0, got {masked_positions}"
print("✅ Attention with mask works correctly")
print("📈 Progress: Scaled dot-product attention ✓")
# Run the test
test_unit_scaled_dot_product_attention()
# %% [markdown]
"""
## Step 3: Self-Attention - The Most Common Case
### What is Self-Attention?
**Self-Attention** is the most common use of attention where Q, K, and V all come from the same input sequence. This is what enables models like GPT to understand relationships between words in a sentence.
### Why Self-Attention Matters
- **Context understanding**: Each word can attend to every other word
- **Long-range dependencies**: Connect distant related concepts
- **Parallel processing**: Unlike RNNs, all positions computed simultaneously
- **Foundation of GPT**: How language models understand context
Let's create a convenient wrapper for self-attention!
"""
# %% nbgrader={"grade": false, "grade_id": "self-attention", "locked": false, "schema_version": 3, "solution": true, "task": false}
#| export
class SelfAttention:
"""
Self-Attention wrapper - Convenience class for self-attention where Q=K=V.
This is the most common use case in transformer models where each position
attends to all positions in the same sequence.
"""
def __init__(self, d_model: int):
"""
Initialize Self-Attention.
TODO: Store the model dimension for this self-attention layer.
STEP-BY-STEP IMPLEMENTATION:
1. Store d_model as an instance variable (self.d_model)
2. Print initialization message for debugging
EXAMPLE USAGE:
```python
self_attn = SelfAttention(d_model=64)
output, weights = self_attn(input_sequence)
```
IMPLEMENTATION HINTS:
- Simply store d_model parameter: self.d_model = d_model
- Print message: print(f"🔧 SelfAttention: d_model={d_model}")
LEARNING CONNECTIONS:
- This is like nn.MultiheadAttention in PyTorch (but simpler)
- Used in every transformer layer for self-attention
- Foundation for understanding GPT, BERT architectures
Args:
d_model: Model dimension
"""
### BEGIN SOLUTION
self.d_model = d_model
print(f"🔧 SelfAttention: d_model={d_model}")
### END SOLUTION
def forward(self, x: Tensor, mask: Optional[Tensor] = None) -> Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
"""
Forward pass of self-attention.
TODO: Apply self-attention where Q=K=V=x.
STEP-BY-STEP IMPLEMENTATION:
1. Call scaled_dot_product_attention with Q=K=V=x
2. Pass the mask parameter through
3. Return the output and attention weights
EXAMPLE USAGE:
```python
x = Tensor(np.random.randn(seq_len, d_model)) # Input sequence
output, weights = self_attn.forward(x)
# weights[i,j] = how much position i attends to position j
```
IMPLEMENTATION HINTS:
- Use the function you implemented above
- Self-attention means: Q = K = V = x
- Return: scaled_dot_product_attention(x, x, x, mask)
LEARNING CONNECTIONS:
- This is how transformers process sequences
- Each position can attend to any other position
- Enables understanding of long-range dependencies
Args:
x: Input tensor (..., seq_len, d_model)
mask: Optional attention mask
Returns:
output: Self-attention output (..., seq_len, d_model)
attention_weights: Attention weights
"""
### BEGIN SOLUTION
# Self-attention: Q = K = V = x
return scaled_dot_product_attention(x, x, x, mask)
### END SOLUTION
def __call__(self, x: Tensor, mask: Optional[Tensor] = None) -> Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
"""Make the class callable."""
return self.forward(x, mask)
# %% [markdown]
"""
### 🧪 Test Your Self-Attention Implementation
Once you implement the SelfAttention class above, run this cell to test it:
"""
# %% nbgrader={"grade": true, "grade_id": "test-self-attention-immediate", "locked": true, "points": 5, "schema_version": 3, "solution": false, "task": false}
def test_unit_self_attention():
"""Unit test for the self-attention wrapper."""
print("🔬 Unit Test: Self-Attention...")
# Test parameters
d_model = 32
seq_len = 8
np.random.seed(42)
# Create test data (like word embeddings)
x = Tensor(np.random.randn(seq_len, d_model) * 0.1)
print(f"📊 Test setup: d_model={d_model}, seq_len={seq_len}")
# Create self-attention
self_attn = SelfAttention(d_model)
# Test forward pass
output, weights = self_attn(x)
print(f"📊 Output shapes: output{output.shape}, weights{weights.shape}")
# Verify properties
assert output.shape == x.shape, f"Output shape should match input shape {x.shape}, got {output.shape}"
assert weights.shape == (seq_len, seq_len), f"Attention weights shape should be {(seq_len, seq_len)}, got {weights.shape}"
assert np.allclose(np.sum(weights.data, axis=-1), 1.0), "Attention weights should sum to 1"
assert weights.shape[0] == weights.shape[1], "Self-attention weights should be square matrix"
print("✅ Output shape preserved: True")
print("✅ Attention weights correct shape: True")
print("✅ Attention weights sum to 1: True")
print("✅ Self-attention is symmetric operation: True")
print("📈 Progress: Self-Attention ✓")
# Run the test
test_unit_self_attention()
# %% [markdown]
"""
## Step 4: Attention Masking - Controlling Information Flow
### Why Masking Matters
Masking allows us to control which positions can attend to which other positions:
1. **Causal Masking**: For autoregressive models (like GPT) - can't see future tokens
2. **Padding Masking**: Ignore padding tokens in variable-length sequences
3. **Custom Masking**: Application-specific attention patterns
### Types of Masks
- **Causal (Lower Triangular)**: Position i can only attend to positions ≤ i
- **Padding**: Mask out padding tokens so they don't affect attention
- **Bidirectional**: All positions can attend to all positions (like BERT)
Let's implement these essential masking utilities!
"""
# %% nbgrader={"grade": false, "grade_id": "attention-masking", "locked": false, "schema_version": 3, "solution": true, "task": false}
#| export
def create_causal_mask(seq_len: int) -> np.ndarray:
"""
Create a causal (lower triangular) mask for autoregressive models.
Used in models like GPT where each position can only attend to
previous positions, not future ones.
TODO: Create a lower triangular matrix of ones.
STEP-BY-STEP IMPLEMENTATION:
1. Use np.tril() to create lower triangular matrix
2. Create matrix of ones with shape (seq_len, seq_len)
3. Return the lower triangular part
EXAMPLE USAGE:
```python
mask = create_causal_mask(4)
# mask = [[1, 0, 0, 0],
# [1, 1, 0, 0],
# [1, 1, 1, 0],
# [1, 1, 1, 1]]
```
IMPLEMENTATION HINTS:
- Use np.ones((seq_len, seq_len)) to create matrix of ones
- Use np.tril() to get lower triangular part
- Or combine: np.tril(np.ones((seq_len, seq_len)))
LEARNING CONNECTIONS:
- Used in GPT for autoregressive generation
- Prevents looking into the future during training
- Essential for language modeling tasks
Args:
seq_len: Sequence length
Returns:
mask: Causal mask (seq_len, seq_len) with 1s for allowed positions, 0s for blocked
"""
### BEGIN SOLUTION
return np.tril(np.ones((seq_len, seq_len)))
### END SOLUTION
#| export
def create_padding_mask(lengths: List[int], max_length: int) -> np.ndarray:
"""
Create padding mask for variable-length sequences.
TODO: Create mask that ignores padding tokens.
STEP-BY-STEP IMPLEMENTATION:
1. Initialize zero array with shape (batch_size, max_length, max_length)
2. For each sequence in the batch, set valid positions to 1
3. Valid positions are [:length, :length] for each sequence
4. Return the mask array
EXAMPLE USAGE:
```python
lengths = [3, 2, 4] # Actual sequence lengths
mask = create_padding_mask(lengths, max_length=4)
# For sequence 0 (length=3): positions [0,1,2] can attend to [0,1,2]
# For sequence 1 (length=2): positions [0,1] can attend to [0,1]
```
IMPLEMENTATION HINTS:
- batch_size = len(lengths)
- Use np.zeros((batch_size, max_length, max_length))
- Loop through lengths: for i, length in enumerate(lengths)
- Set valid region: mask[i, :length, :length] = 1
LEARNING CONNECTIONS:
- Used when sequences have different lengths
- Prevents attention to padding tokens
- Essential for efficient batch processing
Args:
lengths: List of actual sequence lengths
max_length: Maximum sequence length (padded length)
Returns:
mask: Padding mask (batch_size, max_length, max_length)
"""
### BEGIN SOLUTION
batch_size = len(lengths)
mask = np.zeros((batch_size, max_length, max_length))
for i, length in enumerate(lengths):
mask[i, :length, :length] = 1
return mask
### END SOLUTION
#| export
def create_bidirectional_mask(seq_len: int) -> np.ndarray:
"""
Create a bidirectional mask where all positions can attend to all positions.
Used in models like BERT for bidirectional context understanding.
TODO: Create a matrix of all ones.
STEP-BY-STEP IMPLEMENTATION:
1. Use np.ones() to create matrix of all ones
2. Shape should be (seq_len, seq_len)
3. Return the matrix
EXAMPLE USAGE:
```python
mask = create_bidirectional_mask(3)
# mask = [[1, 1, 1],
# [1, 1, 1],
# [1, 1, 1]]
```
IMPLEMENTATION HINTS:
- Very simple: np.ones((seq_len, seq_len))
- All positions can attend to all positions
LEARNING CONNECTIONS:
- Used in BERT for bidirectional understanding
- Allows looking at past and future context
- Good for understanding tasks, not generation
Args:
seq_len: Sequence length
Returns:
mask: All-ones mask (seq_len, seq_len)
"""
### BEGIN SOLUTION
return np.ones((seq_len, seq_len))
### END SOLUTION
# %% [markdown]
"""
### 🧪 Test Your Masking Functions
Once you implement the masking functions above, run this cell to test them:
"""
# %% nbgrader={"grade": true, "grade_id": "test-masking-immediate", "locked": true, "points": 5, "schema_version": 3, "solution": false, "task": false}
def test_unit_attention_masking():
"""Unit test for the attention masking utilities."""
print("🔬 Unit Test: Attention Masking...")
# Test causal mask
seq_len = 5
causal_mask = create_causal_mask(seq_len)
print(f"📊 Causal mask for seq_len={seq_len}:")
print(causal_mask)
# Verify causal mask properties
assert np.allclose(causal_mask, np.tril(causal_mask)), "Causal mask should be lower triangular"
assert causal_mask.shape == (seq_len, seq_len), f"Causal mask should have shape {(seq_len, seq_len)}"
assert np.all(np.triu(causal_mask, k=1) == 0), "Causal mask upper triangle should be zeros"
# Test padding mask
lengths = [5, 3, 4]
max_length = 5
padding_mask = create_padding_mask(lengths, max_length)
print(f"📊 Padding mask for lengths {lengths}, max_length={max_length}:")
print("Mask for sequence 0 (length 5):")
print(padding_mask[0])
print("Mask for sequence 1 (length 3):")
print(padding_mask[1])
# Verify padding mask properties
assert padding_mask.shape == (3, max_length, max_length), f"Padding mask should have shape {(3, max_length, max_length)}"
assert np.all(padding_mask[0] == 1), "Full-length sequence should be all ones"
assert np.all(padding_mask[1, 3:, :] == 0), "Short sequence should have zeros in padding area"
# Test bidirectional mask
bidirectional_mask = create_bidirectional_mask(seq_len)
assert np.all(bidirectional_mask == 1), "Bidirectional mask should be all ones"
assert bidirectional_mask.shape == (seq_len, seq_len), f"Bidirectional mask should have shape {(seq_len, seq_len)}"
print("✅ Causal mask is lower triangular: True")
print("✅ Causal mask has correct shape: True")
print("✅ Causal mask upper triangle is zeros: True")
print("✅ Padding mask has correct shape: True")
print("✅ Full-length sequence is all ones: True")
print("✅ Short sequence has zeros in padding area: True")
print("✅ Bidirectional mask is all ones: True")
print("✅ Bidirectional mask has correct shape: True")
print("📈 Progress: Attention Masking ✓")
# Run the test
test_unit_attention_masking()
# %% [markdown]
"""
## Step 5: Complete System Integration Test
### Bringing It All Together
Let's test all components working together in a realistic scenario similar to how they would be used in actual transformer models.
"""
# %% nbgrader={"grade": true, "grade_id": "test-integration-final", "locked": true, "points": 10, "schema_version": 3, "solution": false, "task": false}
def test_unit_complete_attention_system():
"""Comprehensive unit test for the entire attention system."""
print("🔬 Comprehensive Test: Complete Attention System...")
# Test parameters
d_model = 32
seq_len = 8
batch_size = 2
np.random.seed(42)
print(f"📊 Integration test: d_model={d_model}, seq_len={seq_len}, batch_size={batch_size}")
# Step 1: Create input embeddings (simulating word embeddings)
embeddings = Tensor(np.random.randn(batch_size, seq_len, d_model) * 0.1)
print(f"📊 Input embeddings: {embeddings.shape}")
# Step 2: Test basic attention
output, attention_weights = scaled_dot_product_attention(embeddings, embeddings, embeddings)
assert output.shape == embeddings.shape, "Basic attention should preserve shape"
print(f"✅ Basic attention works: {output.shape}")
# Step 3: Test self-attention wrapper
self_attn = SelfAttention(d_model)
self_output, self_weights = self_attn(Tensor(embeddings.data[0])) # Single batch item
assert self_output.shape == (seq_len, d_model), "Self-attention should preserve shape"
print(f"✅ Self-attention output: {self_output.shape}")
# Step 4: Test with causal mask (like GPT)
causal_mask = Tensor(create_causal_mask(seq_len))
causal_output, causal_weights = scaled_dot_product_attention(
Tensor(embeddings.data[0]), Tensor(embeddings.data[0]), Tensor(embeddings.data[0]), causal_mask
)
assert causal_output.shape == (seq_len, d_model), "Causal attention should preserve shape"
print(f"✅ Causal attention works: {causal_output.shape}")
# Step 5: Test with padding mask (variable lengths)
lengths = [seq_len, seq_len-3] # Different sequence lengths
padding_mask = Tensor(create_padding_mask(lengths, seq_len))
padded_output, padded_weights = scaled_dot_product_attention(
Tensor(embeddings.data[0]), Tensor(embeddings.data[0]), Tensor(embeddings.data[0]), Tensor(padding_mask.data[0])
)
assert padded_output.shape == (seq_len, d_model), "Padding attention should preserve shape"
print(f"✅ Padding mask works: {padded_output.shape}")
# Step 6: Verify all outputs have correct properties
assert np.allclose(np.sum(attention_weights.data, axis=-1), 1.0), "All attention weights should sum to 1"
assert output.shape == embeddings.shape, "All outputs should preserve input shape"
assert np.all(np.triu(causal_weights.data, k=1) < 1e-6), "Causal masking should work"
print("✅ All attention weights sum to 1: True")
print("✅ All outputs preserve input shape: True")
print("✅ Causal masking works: True")
print("📈 Progress: Complete Attention System ✓")
# Run the test
test_unit_complete_attention_system()
# %% [markdown]
"""
## 🎯 Attention Behavior Analysis
Let's create a simple example to see what attention patterns emerge and understand the behavior.
"""
# %% nbgrader={"grade": false, "grade_id": "attention-analysis", "locked": false, "schema_version": 3, "solution": false, "task": false}
print("🎯 Attention behavior analysis:")
# Create a simple sequence with clear patterns
simple_seq = np.array([
[1, 0, 0, 0], # Position 0: [1, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 1, 0, 0], # Position 1: [0, 1, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 1, 0], # Position 2: [0, 0, 1, 0]
[1, 0, 0, 0], # Position 3: [1, 0, 0, 0] (same as position 0)
])
print(f"🎯 Simple test sequence shape: {simple_seq.shape}")
# Apply attention
output, weights = scaled_dot_product_attention(Tensor(simple_seq), Tensor(simple_seq), Tensor(simple_seq))
print(f"🎯 Attention pattern analysis:")
print(f"Position 0 attends most to position: {np.argmax(weights.data[0])}")
print(f"Position 3 attends most to position: {np.argmax(weights.data[3])}")
print(f"✅ Positions with same content should attend to each other!")
# Test with causal masking
causal_mask = create_causal_mask(4)
output_causal, weights_causal = scaled_dot_product_attention(Tensor(simple_seq), Tensor(simple_seq), Tensor(simple_seq), Tensor(causal_mask))
print(f"🎯 With causal masking:")
print(f"Position 3 can only attend to positions 0-3: {np.sum(weights_causal.data[3, :]) > 0.99}")
def plot_attention_patterns(weights, weights_causal):
"""Visualize attention patterns."""
plt.figure(figsize=(12, 4))
plt.subplot(1, 3, 1)
plt.imshow(weights.data, cmap='Blues')
plt.title('Full Attention Weights\n(Darker = Higher Attention)')
plt.xlabel('Key Position')
plt.ylabel('Query Position')
plt.colorbar()
# Add text annotations
for i in range(4):
for j in range(4):
plt.text(j, i, f'{weights.data[i,j]:.2f}',
ha='center', va='center',
color='white' if weights.data[i,j] > 0.5 else 'black')
plt.subplot(1, 3, 2)
plt.imshow(weights_causal.data, cmap='Blues')
plt.title('Causal Attention Weights\n(Upper triangle masked)')
plt.xlabel('Key Position')
plt.ylabel('Query Position')
plt.colorbar()
plt.subplot(1, 3, 3)
plt.plot(weights.data[0], 'o-', label='Position 0 attention')
plt.plot(weights.data[3], 's-', label='Position 3 attention')
plt.xlabel('Attending to Position')
plt.ylabel('Attention Weight')
plt.title('Attention Distribution')
plt.legend()
plt.grid(True)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()
print("🎯 Attention learns to focus on similar content!")
print("\n" + "="*50)
print("🔥 ATTENTION MODULE COMPLETE!")
print("="*50)
print("✅ Scaled dot-product attention")
print("✅ Self-attention wrapper")
print("✅ Causal masking")
print("✅ Padding masking")
print("✅ Bidirectional masking")
print("✅ Attention visualization")
print("✅ Complete integration tests")
print("\nYou now understand the core mechanism powering modern AI! 🚀")
print("Next: Learn how to build complete transformer models using this foundation.")
def test_unit_attention_mechanism():
"""Unit test for the attention mechanism implementation."""
print("🔬 Unit Test: Attention Mechanism...")
# Test basic attention
Q = Tensor(np.random.randn(4, 6) * 0.1)
K = Tensor(np.random.randn(4, 6) * 0.1)
V = Tensor(np.random.randn(4, 6) * 0.1)
output, weights = scaled_dot_product_attention(Q, K, V)
assert output.shape == (4, 6), "Attention should produce correct output shape"
assert weights.shape == (4, 4), "Attention weights should be square matrix"
assert np.allclose(np.sum(weights.data, axis=-1), 1.0), "Attention weights should sum to 1"
print("✅ Attention mechanism works correctly")
# Run the test
test_unit_attention_mechanism()
def test_unit_self_attention_wrapper():
"""Unit test for the self-attention wrapper implementation."""
print("🔬 Unit Test: Self-Attention Wrapper...")
# Test self-attention
self_attn = SelfAttention(d_model=32)
x = Tensor(np.random.randn(8, 32) * 0.1)
output, weights = self_attn(x)
assert output.shape == x.shape, "Self-attention should preserve input shape"
assert weights.shape == (8, 8), "Self-attention weights should be square"
assert np.allclose(np.sum(weights.data, axis=-1), 1.0), "Weights should sum to 1"
print("✅ Self-attention wrapper works correctly")
# Run the test
test_unit_self_attention_wrapper()
def test_unit_masking_utilities():
"""Unit test for the attention masking utilities."""
print("🔬 Unit Test: Masking Utilities...")
# Test causal mask
causal_mask = create_causal_mask(4)
assert np.allclose(causal_mask, np.tril(causal_mask)), "Causal mask should be lower triangular"
# Test padding mask
padding_mask = create_padding_mask([3, 2], 4)
assert padding_mask.shape == (2, 4, 4), "Padding mask should have correct shape"
# Test bidirectional mask
bidirectional_mask = create_bidirectional_mask(3)
assert np.all(bidirectional_mask == 1), "Bidirectional mask should be all ones"
print("✅ Masking utilities work correctly")
# Run the test
test_unit_masking_utilities()
# %% [markdown]
"""
## 🧪 Module Testing
Time to test your implementation! This section uses TinyTorch's standardized testing framework to ensure your implementation works correctly.
**This testing section is locked** - it provides consistent feedback across all modules and cannot be modified.
"""
# %% nbgrader={"grade": false, "grade_id": "standardized-testing", "locked": true, "schema_version": 3, "solution": false, "task": false}
# =============================================================================
# STANDARDIZED MODULE TESTING - DO NOT MODIFY
# This cell is locked to ensure consistent testing across all TinyTorch modules
# =============================================================================
# %% [markdown]
"""
## 🔬 Integration Test: Attention with Tensors
"""
# %%
def test_module_attention_tensor_compatibility():
"""
Integration test for the attention mechanism and the Tensor class.
Tests that the scaled_dot_product_attention function works correctly with Tensor objects.
"""
print("🔬 Running Integration Test: Attention with Tensors...")
# 1. Define Q, K, V as Tensors
q = Tensor(np.random.randn(1, 5, 16)) # (batch, seq_len, d_k)
k = Tensor(np.random.randn(1, 5, 16))
v = Tensor(np.random.randn(1, 5, 32)) # (batch, seq_len, d_v)
# 2. Perform scaled dot-product attention
output, attn_weights = scaled_dot_product_attention(q, k, v)
# 3. Assert outputs are Tensors with correct shapes
assert isinstance(output, Tensor), "Output should be a Tensor"
assert output.shape == (1, 5, 32), f"Expected output shape (1, 5, 32), but got {output.shape}"
assert isinstance(attn_weights, Tensor), "Attention weights should be a Tensor"
assert attn_weights.shape == (1, 5, 5), f"Expected weights shape (1, 5, 5), but got {attn_weights.shape}"
# 4. Check that attention weights sum to 1
assert np.allclose(attn_weights.data.sum(axis=-1), 1.0), "Attention weights should sum to 1"
print("✅ Integration Test Passed: Scaled dot-product attention is compatible with Tensors.")
# %% [markdown]
"""
### 📊 Visualization Demo: Attention Patterns
Let's visualize the attention patterns we computed earlier (for educational purposes):
"""
# %%
# Demo visualization - only run in interactive mode, not during tests
if __name__ == "__main__":
# Recreate the demo data for visualization (separate from tests)
simple_seq = np.array([
[1, 0, 0, 0], # Position 0: [1, 0, 0, 0]
[0, 1, 0, 0], # Position 1: [0, 1, 0, 0]
[0, 0, 1, 0], # Position 2: [0, 0, 1, 0]
[1, 0, 0, 0], # Position 3: [1, 0, 1, 0] (same as position 0)
])
# Apply attention for visualization
output, weights = scaled_dot_product_attention(Tensor(simple_seq), Tensor(simple_seq), Tensor(simple_seq))
# Test with causal masking for visualization
causal_mask = create_causal_mask(4)
output_causal, weights_causal = scaled_dot_product_attention(Tensor(simple_seq), Tensor(simple_seq), Tensor(simple_seq), Tensor(causal_mask))
print("🎯 Attention Visualization Demo:")
print("Original sequence shape:", simple_seq.shape)
print("Attention output shape:", output.shape)
print("Attention weights shape:", weights.shape)
print("Causal attention output shape:", output_causal.shape)
print("Causal attention weights shape:", weights_causal.shape)
# %% [markdown]
"""
## 🎯 MODULE SUMMARY: Attention Mechanisms
Congratulations! You've successfully implemented the attention mechanisms that power modern AI:
### What You've Accomplished
✅ **Scaled Dot-Product Attention**: The core attention mechanism used in transformers
✅ **Multi-Head Attention**: Parallel attention heads for complex pattern recognition
✅ **Causal Masking**: Sequence modeling for autoregressive generation
✅ **Integration**: Seamless compatibility with Tensor operations
✅ **Real Applications**: Language modeling, machine translation, and more
### Key Concepts You've Learned
- **Attention as weighted averaging**: How attention computes context-dependent representations
- **Query-Key-Value paradigm**: The fundamental attention computation pattern
- **Scaled dot-product**: Mathematical foundation of attention mechanisms
- **Multi-head processing**: Parallel attention for complex pattern recognition
- **Causal masking**: Enabling autoregressive sequence generation
### Mathematical Foundations
- **Attention computation**: Attention(Q,K,V) = softmax(QK^T/√d_k)V
- **Scaled dot-product**: Preventing gradient vanishing in deep networks
- **Multi-head attention**: Parallel attention heads with different projections
- **Causal masking**: Upper triangular masking for autoregressive generation
### Professional Skills Developed
- **Matrix operations**: Efficient attention computation with NumPy
- **Masking techniques**: Implementing causal and padding masks
- **Multi-head processing**: Parallel attention head implementation
- **Integration patterns**: How attention fits into larger architectures
### Ready for Advanced Applications
Your attention implementations now enable:
- **Transformer architectures**: Complete transformer models for NLP
- **Language modeling**: GPT-style autoregressive generation
- **Machine translation**: Sequence-to-sequence attention models
- **Vision transformers**: Attention for computer vision tasks
### Connection to Real ML Systems
Your implementations mirror production systems:
- **PyTorch**: `torch.nn.MultiheadAttention()` provides identical functionality
- **TensorFlow**: `tf.keras.layers.MultiHeadAttention()` implements similar concepts
- **Hugging Face**: All transformer models use these exact attention mechanisms
### Next Steps
1. **Export your code**: `tito export 07_attention`
2. **Test your implementation**: `tito test 07_attention`
3. **Build transformers**: Combine attention with feed-forward networks
4. **Move to Module 8**: Add data loading for real-world datasets!
**Ready for data engineering?** Your attention mechanisms are now ready for real-world applications!
"""