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Attention Flow Analysis(AFA)
Track and visualize where AI systems focus their attention during reasoning
In 30 seconds
- What
- Visualizes which inputs or reasoning steps an AI model prioritizes by mapping attention weights across layers, heads, and time steps.
- When to use
- Debugging unexpected model outputs, validating reasoning quality, or understanding why a system ignored relevant information.
- Watch out
- Attention patterns don't always reflect actual reasoning; high attention to a token doesn't guarantee it influenced the final decision.
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Attention Flow Analysis: Overview
Track and visualize where AI systems focus their attention during reasoning
- Attention pattern visualization
- Focus intensity mapping
- Temporal attention tracking
- Multi-head attention analysis
- Cross-modal attention flows
- Attention anomaly detection
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