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Interactive Attention Visualization

A small example of an interactive visualization for attention values as being used by transformer language models like GPT2 and BERT.

by Hendrik Strobelt and Sebastian Gehrmann for the SIDN IAP class at MIT, Jan 2020

<p align="center"> <img width="600" height="460" src="attnvis.gif"> </p>

Preparation

Running the demo

Structure

api.py             -- contains the interface to the pytorch/huggingface backend 
server.py          -- defines a REST interface for the api.py calls

client/*           -- contains all client files
client/index.html  -- main file including JS code
client/styles.css  -- all CSS styles defined in here
client/tools.js    -- helper functions

Libraries used

Thanks

Thanks to Ben Hoover and David Bau for testing the code. Supported by MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.