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by cgearhart 760 days ago
Oooooh, I forgot that the self attention layer has a softmax. I thought this was referring to a softmax on the dense forward layer. Thanks!

Next question: does the softmax in the SA block cause it to be bandwidth bound—won’t it have to materialize all the parameters of the N^2 matrix either way? Does SM cause redundant data reads?