LLM Attention Visualization

LLM Attention Visualization

A browser-based interactive visualization that shows how transformer LLMs allocate attention to past tokens during generation by aggregating attention weights and value magnitudes across heads and layers.

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LLM Attention Visualization

LLM Attention Visualization is an interactive browser-based tool that visualizes the attention mechanism of transformer-based large language models during generation. It aggregates attention weights scaled by the magnitude of the value vector across all attention heads and summed across all layers, then maps those aggregated values to the opacity of prior tokens so users can see which past tokens influenced a generated token. The tool is implemented as a React app using Transformers.js with an instrumented ONNX model and is aimed at developers, researchers, and anyone interested in model interpretability and debugging.

A visualization of the attention mechanism in LLMs.

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Key Features

Token-level attention visualization

Tap or hover over any generated token to see which past tokens affected its generation, with opacity encoding aggregated attention-derived values.

Aggregated attention metric

Computes attention weight scaled by the magnitude of the value vector, aggregated across attention heads and summed across layers to produce a single numeric value per past token used for visualization.

Interactive examples and pre-generated prompts

Includes pre-generated prompts (e.g., 'Office Move Summary', 'Debugging an Average Function') so examples load instantly in the browser without waiting for large model downloads.

Browser-based generation with Transformers.js

Generates text in-browser using Transformers.js and an instrumented ONNX model to expose internal values required for visualization.

Instrumented ONNX model hosted

Uses a modified ONNX file uploaded to the author's Hugging Face repo to expose internal tensors not available from the regular model outputs.

Open-source code available

Author provides the code in a GitHub repository (mentioned in the post) for reproducing or studying the implementation.

Pricing

Current pricing details are not available from the vendor source.

Use Cases

Understand copying behavior

Visualize why LLMs can reproduce source data verbatim by seeing which source tokens are being attended to during generation (demonstrated in the 'Office Move Summary' example).

Debug model outputs

Inspect token influences to aid debugging of generated outputs and to understand where a model draws information from (illustrated with the 'Debugging an Average Function' example).

Model interpretability research and education

Serve as an educational tool for researchers and practitioners to explore attention patterns and how different tokens combine information across phrases.

Integrations

Transformers.js

Used to run generation in the browser and integrate model inference into the React app.

ONNX (instrumented model)

A modified ONNX model is used to expose internal tensors required for the visualization; the instrumented model is uploaded to the author's Hugging Face repo.

React

The visualization is implemented as a React application for interactive UI and rendering.

GitHub

Code for the project is available in a GitHub repository referenced in the post.

Benefits

Makes transformer attention patterns tangible by mapping aggregated attention-derived values to visual opacity for prior tokens.
Helps explain and demystify behaviors like precise copy-pasting from source prompts by revealing which tokens the model draws from.
Provides an interactive, developer-friendly environment (React + Transformers.js) and open code for reproducibility and further exploration.

Limitations

"Affected" might not be fully accurate — the visualization is highly simplified and reduces many internal values to a single number per past token.
A lot of information is discarded to limit the visualization to one numeric value per past token, which can hide per-head or per-layer nuances.
Transformers.js .onnx files do not expose internal tensors by default; the author had to modify the ONNX file and host an instrumented model, so the visualization does not use an unmodified standard model.
Models used in-browser are still hundreds of megabytes, so pre-generated prompts are provided to avoid long downloads.

Frequently Asked Questions

No verified FAQs are available.

Getting Started

  1. 1 Open the LLM Attention Visualization page in a browser with JavaScript enabled (the page shows 'Loading... (JavaScript required)').
  2. 2 Select or load one of the pre-generated prompts to view examples instantly.
  3. 3 Hover or tap on generated tokens to see which past tokens influenced that token's generation.
  4. 4 Visit the GitHub repository (linked from the post) to inspect the code and learn how the instrumented ONNX model and generation loop were implemented.

Support

docs

Code and implementation details are available in the GitHub repository referenced in the post.

author contact

The blog/site includes an 'Email Me' link for contacting the author (refer to the site header).

API

Available: No

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