“Attention Is All You Need” (Vaswani et al., 2017) is the landmark paper that introduced the Transformer architecture, which is the backbone of all modern LLMs (GPT, BERT, LLaMA, etc.). Imagine you’re reading a story: “The dog chased the ball because it was fast.” Now, what does “it” refer to? As humans, we instantly know “it” = the ball.We do …