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Browser tool visualizes LLM attention and token selection

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A developer has created a browser-based tool that visualizes the internal workings of a small language model, SmolLM2-135M. The tool, which runs entirely client-side, displays token generation probabilities and attention weights between tokens. A key insight from its development was the discovery of the 'attention sink' phenomenon, where tokens heavily attend to the initial prompt token. AI

IMPACT Provides a novel visualization for understanding LLM behavior, potentially aiding researchers and developers in debugging and model interpretation.

RANK_REASON The item describes a browser tool for visualizing LLM attention, which is a software product.

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Browser tool visualizes LLM attention and token selection

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Minute-Mountain2665 ·

    I built a browser tool to visualize how a small LLM picks its next word and see what it's attending to [P]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I made a little thing that visualizes attention. It runs <strong>SmolLM2-135M</strong> fully in the browser (onnxruntime-web, int8, no server, works on my phone).</p> <p>You give it a prompt, it generates one token at a time, and for each step yo…

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