Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cross-attention

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English

Syllables
cross-at-ten-tion
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A form of attention (machine learning method) where two different input sequences are compared, i.e. the keys and queries differ.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From cross- + attention.

Usage

Inflected Forms

cross attention (alternative)

Antonyms

self-attention

Questions

What does cross-attention mean?
A form of attention (machine learning method) where two different input sequences are compared, i.e. the keys and queries differ.
Where does cross-attention come from?
From cross- + attention.

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