Animations for Flash Attention, Flash Attention2, and Standard Attention #736
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I made a series of
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animations illustrating how the implementations of Standard Attention, Flash Attention, and Flash Attention 2 work. They show how, asymptotically, Flash Attention and Flash Attention 2 perform better than Standard Attention with respect to the number of Input/Output accesses between HMB and SRAM.Note that the animations only show the Forward Pass for each algorithm.
Find them all in this playlist