This course will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering.
Attention Mechanism
Attention Mechanism
Instructor: Google Cloud Training
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4.2
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Advanced level
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1 hour to complete
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What you'll learn
Understand the concept of attention and how it works
Learn how attention mechanism is applied to machine translation
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There is 1 module in this course
In this module you will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering.
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KZ
4
Reviewed on Aug 25, 2024
Small and compact, I would call it a more intermediate course so be ready.
VO
4
Reviewed on Jan 29, 2025
Clear short and direct I would be nice a more example, for example employed of multi-head attention but in general is very good.
SK
5
Reviewed on Oct 15, 2024
So informative and one of the greatest topic and explained really well.
