Attention is all You Need
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The Core Concepts
Self-Attention 🧠is a mechanism that allows a sequence (like a sentence) to interact with itself. It calculates how much “attention” each word should pay to every other word in the same sentence. For example, in the sentence “The animal didn’t cross the street because it was too tired,” self-attention helps the model realize that “it” refers to the animal, not the street.