Understanding Attention in Recurrent Neural Networks

Attention has become one of the hottest topics in deep learning. Let’s review its importance in recurrent neural networks.

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In 2017, the Google Brain team published the uber-famous paper “Attention is all You Need” which started the transformers, pre-trained model revolution. Before that paper, Google had been exploring attention-based models for a few years. Today, I would like to revisit an earlier Google paper from 2016 that was the first paper I read about the attention subject.

Attention is a cognitive ability that we rely on all the time. Just trying to read this article is a complicated task from the neuroscientific standpoint. At this time you are probably…