Questions tagged [attention-mechanism]
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Is the difference between a fully connected weights layer and attention just the softmax?
As I understand it, attention is computed with the softmax over the alignment scores of the keys and values, where, in a language model, all the input words are both keys and values.
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Can self-attention be viewed as an expectation?
This specifically refers to self-attention mechanism in GANs:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.08318.pdf
https://github.com/heykeetae/Self-Attention-GAN
Each channel in the input layer $x$ is vectorized, i....
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Hierarchical transformer for document classification: error with model implementation, and advice on extracting attention weights
I am trying to implement a hierarchical transformer for document classification in Keras/tensorflow, in which:
(1) a word-level transformer produces a representation of each sentence, and attention ...
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what is the difference between positional vector and attention vector used in transformer model?
what is the difference between positional vector and attention vector used in transformer model ? , i saw a video in youtue and the defintion for positional vector was give as :* "vector that ...
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Predicting point sequence in image
My training set is a set of images (either 3 channel or 1 ofc i use only one type of channel). And the labels are a sequence of points in a specific order that i want to predict from the images.
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How to understand Inconsistent and ambiguous dimensions of matrices used in the Attention layer?
Attention-scoring mechanism seems to be a commonly-used component in various seq2seq models, and I was reading about the original "Location-based Attention" in Bahadanau well-known paper at https://...
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Transformer-based architectures for regression tasks
As far as I've seen, transformer-based architectures are always trained with classification tasks (one-hot text tokens for example). Are you aware of any architectures using attention and solving ...
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Transformer decoder output - how is it linear?
I'm not quite sure how's the decoder output is flattened into a single vector.
As from my understanding, if we input the encoder with a length N sentence, it's output is N x units (e.g. N x 1000), and ...
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Is the number of bidirectional LSTMs in encoder-decoder model equal to the maximum length of input text/characters?
I'm confused about this aspect of RNNs while trying to learn how seq2seq encoder-decoder works at https://machinelearningmastery.com/configure-encoder-decoder-model-neural-machine-translation/.
It ...
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How to add a Decoder & Attention Layer to Bidirectional Encoder with tensorflow 2.0
I am a beginner in machine learning and I'm trying to create a spelling correction model that spell checks for a small amount of vocab (approximately 1000 phrases). Currently, I am refering to the ...
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How to add attention mechanism to my sequence-to-sequence architecture in Keras?
Based on this blog entry, I have written a sequence to sequence deep learning model in Keras:
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how many spectogram frames per input character does text-to-speech (TTS) system Tacotron-2 generate?
I've been reading on Tacotron-2, a text-to-speech system, that generates speech just-like humans (indistinguisahble from humans) using the github https://github.com/Rayhane-mamah/Tacotron-2.
I'm very ...
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Does BERT use GLoVE?
From all the docs I read, people push this way and that way on how BERT uses or generates embedding. I GET that there is a key and a query and a value and those are all generated.
What I don't know ...
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Attention network without hidden state?
I was wondering how useful the encoder's hidden state is for an attention network. When I looked into the structure of an attention model, this is what I found a model generally looks like:
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Can BERT be used for predicting words?
I have a question regarding the pre-training section (in particular, the Masked Language Model).
In the example Let's stick to improvisation in this skit, by masking the word improvisation, after ...
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What are good toy problems for testing Transformer architectures?
I am testing various variants for Transformers and Transformer architectures. But training on full language tasks is a rather time consuming affair. What are good toy problems to test if a transformer ...
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In “Attention Is All You Need”, why are the FFNs in (2) the same as two convolutions with kernel size 1?
In addition, why do we need a FFN in each layer when we already have attention?
Here's a screenshot of the relevant section from Vaswani et al. (2017):
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Attention model with seq2seq over sequence
On the official tensorflow page there is one exmple of a decoder (https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/text/nmt_with_attention#next_steps):
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Attention to multiple areas of same sentence
Lets consider some sentences below:
"Datascience exchange is a wonderful platform to get answers to datascience related queries and it helps to learn various concepts too"
"Can company1 buy company2? ...
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How do Bahdanau - Luong Attentions use Query, Value, Key vectors?
In the latest TensorFlow 2.1, the tensorflow.keras.layers submodule contains AdditiveAttention() and ...
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Why does the transformer positional encoding use both sine and cosine?
In the transformer architecture they use positional encoding (explained in this answer and I get how it is constructed.
I am wondering why it needs to use both sine and cosine though instead of just ...
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How are Q, K, and V Vectors Trained in a Transformer Self-Attention?
I am new to transformers, so this may be a silly question, but I was reading about transformers and how they use attention, and it involves the usage of three special vectors. Most articles say that ...
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What is the feedforward network in a transformer trained on?
After reading the 'Attention is all you need' article, I understand the general architecture of a transformer. However, it is unclear to me how the feed forward neural network learns.
What I learned ...
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Attention mechanism in Tensorflow 2
In the past days, I read up on the theory behind attention, when to apply it and what types there are. I think I have a decent first understanding of the concept, but now I would like to apply some of ...
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How does attention mechanism learn?
I know how to build an attention in neural networks. But I donāt understand how attention layers learn the weights that pay attention to some specific embedding.
I have this question because Iām ...
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Why is the decoder not a part of BERT architecture?
I can't see how BERT makes predictions without using a decoder unit, which was a part of all models before it including transformers and standard RNNs. How are output predictions made in the BERT ...
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What is difference between attention mechanism and cognitive function?
How are attention mechanism used in different deep learning algorithms different from the cognitive function attention?
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SymbolicException: Inputs to eager execution function cannot be Keras symbolic tensors
I am writing Encoder-Decoder architecture with Bahdanau Attention using tf.keras with TensorFlow 2.0. Below is my code This is working with TensorFlow 1.15 but getting the error in 2.0. you can check ...
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Weight matrices in transformers
I am trying to understand the transformer architecture.
I am aware that the encoder/decoder contains multiple stacked self attention layers. Further each layer contains multiple heads. For example ...
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In Deep Learning, how many kinds of Attention exist? And what is the history of Attention models? [closed]
How many definitions of attention are commonly employed for Deep Learning tasks?
That's what I've encountered up to now:
Self-attention
Bahdanau
Luong
Multi-Head (used in Transformers)
Could you ...
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Any good Implementations of Bi-LSTM bahdanau attention in Keras?
From past few weeks I'm trying to learn sequence to sequence machine translation modelling but I couldn't find any good examples/tutorials with bahdanau attention implemented. I did come across a ton ...
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Training a model for Single Image Super Reoslution
I'm trying to implement the Attention-based approach for SISR paper. However, during something odd happens. The MAE for the first output of the model is very small. But as the training progresses, the ...
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How can we use Attention Layer in a Encoder Decoder Model Architecture for Next Phrase Prediction?
I am currently building a Encoder Decoder Model for Next Phrase Prediction, but only using this model is just giving satisfactory results. So I chose to attach a Attention Layer to the same ...
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What is the advantage of positional encoding over one hot encoding in a transformer model?
I'm trying to read and understand the paper Attention is all you need and in it, they used positional encoding with sin for even indices and cos for odd indices.
In the paper (Section 3.5), they ...
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two different attention methods for seq2seq
I see two different ways of applying attention in seq2seq:
(a) the context vector (the weighted sum of encoder hidden states) fed into the output softmax, as shown in the diagram below. The diagram ...
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How to Visualize Graph Attention
I am quite new to the concept of attention. I am working with graph data and running graph convolution on it to learn node level embedding first. Then an attention layer to aggregate the nodes to ...
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Hard Attention without RL or similar
I want to implement hard attention with Tensorflow in my neural network.
To summarize my understanding of soft and hard attention, let's say we attend over $x_i$'s: In soft attention, we calculate ...
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How to understand the difference between query and memory in the attention of transformer?
The code is like this:
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Pytorch Implementing Simple Attention using Dummy data
Hi I am trying to implement simple/General attention in Pytorch , So far the model seems to working , but what i am intersted in doing is getting the attention weights , so that i can visualize it .
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Gumbel-Softmax trick vs Softmax with temperature
From what I understand, the Gumbel-Softmax trick is a technique that enables us to sample discrete random variables, in a way that is differentiable (and therefore suited for end-to-end deep learning)....
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In a Transformer model, why does one sum positional encoding to the embedding rather than concatenate it?
While reviewing the Transformer architecture, I realized something I didn't expect, which is that :
the positional encoding is summed to the word embeddings
rather than concatenated to it.
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Attention Mechanism: Why use context vector instead of attention weights?
In attention, the context vector ($c$) is derived from the sum of the attention weights ($\alpha$) multiplied by the encoder hidden states ($h$), where the weights are obtained by multiplying the ...
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ValueError: Cannot convert a partially known TensorShape to a Tensor: (?, 256)
I'm working on a sequence to sequence approach using LSTM and a VAE with an attention mechanism.
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What is the positional encoding in the transformer model?
I'm trying to read and understand the paper Attention is all you need and in it, there is a picture:
I don't know what positional encoding is. by listening to some youtube videos I've found out that ...
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What's the difference between Attention vs Self-Attention? What problems does each other solve that the other can't?
As stated in the question above..is there a difference between attention and self attention mechanism ? Also additionally can anybody share with me tips and tricks about how self attention mechanism ...
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Can BERT do the next-word-predict task?
As BERT is bidirectional (uses bi-directional transformer), is it possible to use it for the next-word-predict task? If yes, what needs to be tweaked?
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What is the reason for the speedup of transformer-xl?
The inference speed of transformer-xl is faster than transformer.
Why?
If state reuse is the reason, so it is compared by two 32seq_len + state-reuse vs one 64seq_len + no-state-reuse?
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Keras value error: Operands could not be broadcast with with shapes(100,100) - GRU
I am trying to use Hierarchical Attention Networks for classification of news articles using 20 newsgroup dataset that i downloaded from the internet. I came across this code of the implementation and ...
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Variable input/output length for Transformer
I was reading the paper "Attention is all you need" (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf ) and came across this site
http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/ which provided a great ...
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How to train tensorflow's transformer model on my own data?
https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/official/transformer has an implementation of transformer model.
I want to train the model on my own data(consisting of two files, src.txt, and tgt.txt)...
