Causal Attention Weight Matrix Calculation
In a causal attention mechanism, the attention weight matrix, denoted as , is computed using the formula: This operation yields a lower triangular matrix of size , where is the sequence length. The mask ensures that any element is zero if , preventing any position from attending to future positions. Each row vector in this matrix, such as (alpha_{i,0}, dots, alpha_{i,i}, 0, dots, 0), represents the probability distribution of attention for the -th token over all preceding tokens in the sequence. The structure of this matrix is as follows:
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