Attention mechanisms let a model weight which parts of an input sequence are most relevant when producing each output element.
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Attention Mechanism
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Attention mechanisms let a model weight which parts of an input sequence are most relevant when producing each output element.
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The model learns where to “look” in the input while generating each next piece.
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