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AI2026-03-30
Attention Is Memory-Bound, Not Compute-Bound
Everyone knows attention scales quadratically. Almost nobody talks about why that's a memory problem, not a math problem — and why it matters.
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Everyone knows attention scales quadratically. Almost nobody talks about why that's a memory problem, not a math problem — and why it matters.
A deep technical dive into the self-attention mechanism that powers every modern LLM — from the original 'Attention Is All You Need' paper to today's multi-head architectures.