Distributed Computation of Weighted Value Sums
The attention output, which is a weighted sum of value vectors, can be implemented as a distributed summation program in parallel processing to handle large-scale calculations. The total sum is broken down into partial sums, where the weighted summation of values on different nodes is performed simultaneously. These partial results are then collected via collective operations and aggregated to form the final attention output. The formula for this distributed computation is:
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