A visualization of the attention mechanism in LLMs.
LLM Attention Visualization ishamf.dev Home Tools About Sign in Subscribe Experiments LLM Attention Visualization A visualization of the attention mechanism in LLMs. Isham Faizal Sep 7, 2026 • 3 min read One interesting thing about transformer-based large language models are that, during the generation phase, it is able to draw information from any of its previous tokens. But it needs to be selective; if every token affects the generation equally, it won't be very effective. This process needs a mechanism to decide how much a token affects the next token. Turns out, we can visualize this
A visualization of the attention mechanism in LLMs.
LLM Attention Visualization ishamf.dev Home Tools About Sign in Subscribe Experiments LLM Attention Visualization A visualization of the attention mechanism in LLMs. Isham Faizal Sep 7, 2026 • 3 min read One interesting thing about transformer-based large language models are that, during the generation phase, it is able to draw information from any of its previous tokens. But it needs to be selective; if every token affects the generation equally, it won't be very effective. This process needs a mechanism to decide how much a token affects the next token. Turns out, we can visualize this
