Attention in Machine Learning

Nandhini Swaminathan
The Research Nest
Published in
4 min readNov 26, 2021

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In this article, we will:

📌 Define attention

📌 Explore the types of attention

📌 Take a quick look at some common applications

The simplest explanation for attention is as on Wikipedia,

“In the context of neural networks, attention is a technique that mimics cognitive attention. The effect enhances the

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