It was titled “Memory and Abstraction” from 2018-10-22 to 2019-11-10, but I renamed it because I cannot recall this title when referring to it from various places, so I decided it was not an appropriate name. Note dimensional reduction as we are talking about putting dimensional reduction in attention mechanism. memoryabstraction

image - Multiply both query and key by the same Dropout when drawing from memory in attention mechanism.

  • This is effectively equivalent to doing a dimensional reduction of the two and then comparing them.
    • [Dimension reduction and comparison” as explained in [Similarity of concepts is not distance.
    • [Recall from memory with abstraction rather than simple similarity of query and key.
  • In other words, this is the equivalent of analogy or suggestion.

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