Rationale for Geometric Progression in Positional Bias
A common and effective heuristic for setting the positional bias scalar in a multi-head attention layer is to assign a unique, decreasing value to each head, such that the values form a geometric progression. Explain the primary reasoning behind why this approach is considered a robust strategy for model configuration.
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Rationale for Geometric Progression in Positional Bias