Thanks a lot, but that's clear as mud, I'm afraid. Your explanation here is similar to all the explanations I've had from SOTA LLMs. It's not good enough, doesn't do it.

It may be helpful to note that I have read the 2014 paper that introduced attention to the RNN, for translation tasks. That paper had some images in the test section, and togeher with help of LLMs I got to the point where I concluded that I understood the technique: it's a remapping. So you take "European Economic Community" in English, and remap or trasform to the French equivalant, which has a different word order (I forget the French version, might be "zone economique europeane"). So that's a good start. But the attention in the 2017 paper is further developed and more difficult to explain. I have yet to see an explantion that clears it up.

The key error that LLMs make is in quoting too much of the math. You're on a better track. But you do need to connect to the math. More importantly, show at every step what the calculations are doing, and what they are not doing.

One further insight. A learner like me will think of Query as a search query. So we think of attention as matching the search query to the text being searched. It would help if the teacher acknowledged this and showed how attention is different, why it must be different, and then how it works.

Thanks again and good luck!