Attention Mechanism is a concept in machine learning. It helps models focus on essential parts of the input data. For example, if you are reading a book but only focus on the essential words to understand the story, This is what the Attention Mechanism does in AI. It helps the AI focus on the crucial parts of the information.
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Types of Attention Mechanisms:
Global Attention:
Considers the entire input sequence. For example, I like reading the whole book to understand the story.
Local Attention:
Focuses on a specific part of the input sequence. It's like focusing on one chapter of the book.
Self-Attention:
Each part of the input sequence interacts with every other part. It is just ike seeing how each word in a sentence relates to every other word.
Uses of Attention Mechanism:
Machine Translation: Helps translate text from one language to another.
Image Captioning: Generates descriptions for images.
Text Summarization: Creates brief summaries of long texts.
Speech Recognition: Improves understanding of spoken words.
Examples of Attention Mechanism
- Google Translate: Uses attention to provide accurate translations.
- Automatic Subtitles: Generates captions for videos.
- Chatbots: Understand the context to give relevant responses.
- Self-Driving Cars: Processes sensor data to make driving decisions.