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Machine Learning and AI with Simple Python and Matlab Scripts
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Machine Learning and AI with Simple Python and Matlab Scripts

by M. Umit Uyar
April 2025
Intermediate
384 pages
11h 15m
English
Wiley-IEEE Press
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12RNNs with Attention

12.1 Introduction

In this chapter we introduce attention, an enhancement mechanism for an RNN providing the capability that the information generated by the previous hidden states is directly available at each step [102, 103]. Recall from Chapter 10 that in an RNN, at step t, only the hidden state information from the previous step h Subscript t minus 1 can be directly used. Recursively, h Subscript t minus 1 only has direct access to the hidden state information of h Subscript t minus 2 from step left-parenthesis t minus 2 right-parenthesis, which, in turn, has utilized the hidden state of h Subscript t minus 3, and so on. But the indirect information from distant past hidden states only has a weak influence on the current hidden state, especially as the distance to a past hidden state grows. On the other hand, in an RNN with attention, denoted as RNN‐Att, all hidden states generated at the previous steps (i.e. for a sequence of consecutive inputs) are directly available when computing the ...

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