Nobody Invented Attention. A Frustrated PhD Student Ran Out of Other Options.

Author(s): DrSwarnenduAI Originally published on Towards AI. Nobody Invented Attention. A Frustrated PhD Student Ran Out of Other Options. Dzmitry Bahdanau was not trying to invent the architecture that would eventually run inside every large language model on earth. Completely gibberish at this stage!!!!wait!!!!!! Be with me!!!!!The article discusses the journey of Dzmitry Bahdanau, who, while trying to improve long sentence translations with neural networks, faced challenges due to the limitations of encoding long-range dependencies. It explores the mathematical constraints and problems associated with traditional RNN architectures, leading to the development of the attention mechanism, which redefined how models handle information, allowing for better management of memory in translation tasks, ultimately emphasizing that the main innovation came from addressing practical questions in machine translation rather than mere theoretical constructs. Read the full blog for free on Medium. Join thousands of data leaders on the AI newsletter. Join over 80,000 subscribers and keep up to date with the latest developments in AI. From research to projects and ideas. If you are building an AI startup, an AI-related product, or a service, we invite you to consider becoming a sponsor. Published via Towards AI