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ai, Artificial Intelligence, attention, data-science, physics

Attention is the Gibbs Distribution. Here is the Proof.

DrSwarnenduAI / April 4, 2026

For the uninitiated: what Gibbs actually is. For the initiated: why attention is exactly it. For everyone: what this means for every…Continue reading on Towards AI »

Artificial Intelligence, attention, data-science, mathematics, statistics

The Softmax Function Every Transformer Uses is the Boltzmann Distribution — Not Inspired by It, Not…

DrSwarnenduAI / April 3, 2026

Your AI Runs on the Same Equation as a Steam Engine. Nobody Told You. And once you see it, you understand why LLMs hallucinate, why…Continue reading on Towards AI »

ai, AI research, attention, large-language-models, LLMs, Open Source, Reasoning Models

A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs

Sebastian Raschka, PhD / March 22, 2026

From MHA and GQA to MLA, sparse attention, and hybrid architectures