Sequence architectures and attention · MLD-0446
Full attention
Attention allowing all positions permitted by the general mask to interact.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
Use all earlier tokens in causal self-attention.
Original caveat
A causal mask still permits dense attention over the prefix.
Context and aliases
Level: Intermediate. Stages: Training · Inference · Theory.
Tags: DL · SLM · LLM · NLP.
Aliases: Dense attention.
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 ↗