# Transformer architecture question

I am hand-coding a transformer (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf) based primarily on the instructions I found at this blog: http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/.

The first attention block takes matrix input of the shape [words, input dimension] and multiplies by the attention weight matrices of shape [input dimension, model dimension]. The model dimension is chosen to be less than the input dimension and is the dimension used as output in all subsequent steps.

There is a residual connection around the attention block and the input is meant to be added to the output of the attention block. However the output of the attention block is shape [words, model dimension] and the input is form [words, input dimension]. Should I interpolate the input down to the model dimension as is done in ResNet? Or maybe add another weight matrix to transform the input?

Similarly to other sequence transduction models, we use learned embeddings to convert the input tokens and output tokens to vectors of dimension $$d_{model}$$.