Transformers and Quantum Mechanics: A Striking Resemblance

A researcher has discovered striking similarities between the Transformer architecture and quantum mechanics. Tokens, before context clarifies their meaning, exist in a state of semantic superposition, similar to particles in quantum mechanics. Self-attention mechanisms bind words across sentences like quantum entanglement, and embedding vectors behave like probability wave functions, eventually collapsing into definite interpretations. While not perfectly analogous, the similarities are too significant to ignore, potentially revealing the secrets behind the power of Transformers.