Attention Mechanisms, Part 1: From Seq2Seq to Learned Alignment

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Most of the interesting things we ask neural networks to do look the same from a distance: take a sequence in, generate a sequence out. Translate an English sentence into French -> sequence of English words in, a sequence of French words out. Caption an image or transcribe a recording of speech -> sequence of pixels/recording-samples to a sequence of words. Summarize a paragraph or answer a question grounded in a story -> words in, words out.

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Attention Mechanisms, Part 1: From Seq2Seq to Learned Alignment