Self-attention computes relationships among positions within the same sequence, enabling context-aware token representations.
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Self-Attention
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Self-attention computes relationships among positions within the same sequence, enabling context-aware token representations.
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Every token can attend to every other token in the same passage to build richer meaning.
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- NIST AI Risk Management Framework — risk vocabulary context for AI systems
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