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Chapter AttentionQKCircuit

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ChapterAttentionQKCircuit

by leonardopedro · Oct 6, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

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Formal definitions for the timepiece Lean 4 formalization (source chapter BookProof/ChapterAttentionQKCircuit.lean): generated def bundle for ChapterAttentionQKCircuit. See BookProof/ChapterAttentionQKCircuit.lean for full context.

Definition code
import Definitions.Def_ChapterAttentionOutput
import Definitions.Def_ChapterAttentionEntropy
import Definitions.Def_ChapterSoftmaxOrder
import Definitions.Def_ChapterSoftmaxSharpness
import Mathlib


/-!
# Chapter "The Coherent State of Attention": the head only sees one matrix

A head is usually written with two learned projections, a query map `W_Q` and a key
map `W_K`, and one is tempted to read them as two separate objects — "what the
token asks" and "what the token offers".  The score, however, is
`⟪W_Q x, W_K y⟫ = xᵀ(W_Qᵀ W_K)y`: the pair enters only through the single bilinear
form `W_Qᵀ W_K`, the *QK circuit*.  This module proves that this is exactly the
gauge freedom of the head.

* `qkScore_eq_bilinear` — the score is the bilinear form of `W_Qᵀ W_K`.
* `qkScore_congr_of_qkMatrix_eq` — two parameter pairs with the same product give
  the same scores, hence (`scoreSoftmax_qkScore_congr`, `headOutput_qkScore_congr`)
  the same attention weights and the same output: the split of the circuit into two
  factors is not observable.
* `qkScore_gauge` — **the headline**: for any `A, B` with `Aᵀ B = 1` (any invertible
  `A` with `B = (Aᵀ)⁻¹`), replacing `(W_Q, W_K)` by `(A W_Q, B W_K)` changes nothing.
  The parameters of a head are defined only up to this `GL(d)` action.
* `rank_qkMatrix_le` — the circuit has rank at most the head dimension `d`, which is
  the parameter-space source of the score-table bottleneck of
  `ChapterAttentionLowRank`.

Everything here is `sorry`-free and `axiom`-free (only `propext`,
`Classical.choice`, `Quot.sound`).
-/

open scoped BigOperators

noncomputable section

namespace BookProof.ChapterAttentionQKCircuit

open Matrix BookProof.ChapterSoftmaxSharpness BookProof.ChapterSoftmaxOrder
  BookProof.ChapterObservableExpectation BookProof.ChapterAttentionOutput

variable {d n m : ℕ} {E : Type*} [NormedAddCommGroup E] [NormedSpace ℝ E]

/-! ## The QK circuit -/

/-- The **QK circuit** of a head: the single matrix through which the two learned
projections act on the scores. -/
def qkMatrix (WQ WK : Matrix (Fin d) (Fin n) ℝ) : Matrix (Fin n) (Fin n) ℝ := WQᵀ * WK

/-- The raw score of a query token `x` against a key token `y`. -/
def qkScore (WQ WK : Matrix (Fin d) (Fin n) ℝ) (x y : Fin n → ℝ) : ℝ :=
  (WQ *ᵥ x) ⬝ᵥ (WK *ᵥ y)





/-! ## The gauge freedom of a head -/





/-! ## What the head does with the scores -/







/-! ## The bottleneck lives in the circuit -/



end BookProof.ChapterAttentionQKCircuit
Source
https://github.com/leonardopedro/timepiece/blob/61595bc/BookProof/ChapterAttentionQKCircuit.lean

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