Individual Attention Head Formula
Within a multi-head attention mechanism, the output of each distinct attention head, denoted as , is computed by applying the Query-Key-Value (QKV) attention function to a specific sub-space of the model's representation. The operation utilizes the corresponding query, key, and value matrices for that particular head—, , and —resulting in the following equation:
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Individual Attention Head Formula
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