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ConceptMulti-Head Attention / 多头自注意力

Multi-Head Attention

A core component of the Transformer architecture that runs multiple attention heads in parallel to capture diverse dependency relationships across different subspaces of a sequence. It serves as a foundational building block of modern large language models.

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Oct 21

Head-level score modulation means assigning independent modulation parameters or functions to each attention head in multi-head attention, applying different transformations to the attention scores rather than having all heads share a single structural injection scheme.

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Oct 19

For multi-head attention, the shift invariance of row Softmax and the observability of value updates together make the LoRA rank upper bound tighter than in the general case.

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Oct 18

Multi-head attention splits query/key/value into multiple heads computed in parallel, each head learning a different attention pattern, and the results are concatenated and linearly transformed.

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Sep 11

The original Transformer paper used eight parallel multi-head attention mechanisms.

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Sep 11

Under fixed compute, single-head attention scores 0.9 points lower than the optimal setting, and quality actually decreases when there are too many heads.

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