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The problem attention helps solve

Order, distance, and the fixed-summary bottleneck.

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What you’ll learn

  1. Order changes the message

    Identify a relationship changed by rearranging words.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  2. A useful clue can be far away

    Identify a relevant distant part of a sequence.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  3. Reading with a running state

    Explain the basic idea of a recurrent network.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  4. Some recurrent designs manage what to retain

    Recognize the purpose of gates in an LSTM-style model.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  5. Compressing a sentence can lose useful detail

    Explain the motivation for revisiting source positions.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  6. Earlier attention connected source and output

    Place the 2014 attention work before the 2017 Transformer paper.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  7. Attention is computation, not awareness

    State the boundary of the attention metaphor.

    About 4 minutes · Open activity

  8. Solve the missing-context puzzle

    Find a distant clue, explain the summary bottleneck, and place earlier attention before the Transformer milestone.

    About 5 minutes · Open activity