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cross-attention en · NOUN

Etymology

From cross- + attention.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:machine learning, uncountable) A form of attention (machine learning method) where two different input sequences are compared, i.e. the keys and queries differ.
    • The cross attention layer inside each transformer decoder block is in fact a multi-head cross attention layer […] 2024, Benoit Liquet, Sarat Moka, Yoni Nazarathy, Mathematical Engineering of Deep Learning, CRC Press, page 286:

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Antonyms

self-attention