Sequence architectures and attention · MLD-0156
Causal mask
An attention mask blocking access to future positions.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
Train an autoregressive decoder in parallel over a sequence.
Original caveat
Packed sequences may also require document-boundary masks.
Context and aliases
Level: Intermediate. Stages: Training · Inference · Theory.
Tags: DL · SLM · LLM · NLP.
Aliases: None recorded.
Related concepts
Concepts linking here
Original references
- Attention Is All You Need ↗ · Consulted
- Transformers glossary ↗ · Consulted
- PyTorch neural-network layers ↗ · Reference link
- Original reference URL ↗