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Attention Mechanism

Bahdanau, Cho and Bengio (2014) let a translation network look back at the most relevant input words while writing each output word.

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Attention solved the bottleneck of squeezing a whole sentence into one vector. Its generalisation, self-attention, is the core of the transformer.

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