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Scaled Dot-Product Attention

Transformers · Level 3 of 5

Scaled Dot-Product Attention

Attention that scales query-key dot products before normalization and value aggregation.

The usual scale divides by the square root of the key dimension.

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A score matrix is scaled, masked, softmaxed, and multiplied by values.

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Scaled Dot-Product Attention. Attention that scales query-key dot products before normalization and value aggregation. The usual scale divides by the square root of the key dimension. For example: A score matrix is scaled, masked, softmaxed, and multiplied by values.

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