Attention Mechanism
First introduced in computer vision, visual attention explained the perception towards the world of creatures in some way. I remember the first time I met attention was reading the paper Show and tell: A neural image caption generator during doing work related to image captioning. And in the area of NLP, tasks like machine translation, speech recognition, attention really makes a difference, it was started by combining with Seq2Seq model, then new model like Transformer tried to getting out of this. »