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What is: Attention Dropout?

Year2018
Data SourceCC BY-SA - https://paperswithcode.com

Attention Dropout is a type of dropout used in attention-based architectures, where elements are randomly dropped out of the softmax in the attention equation. For example, for scaled-dot product attention, we would drop elements from the first term:

Attention(Q,K,V)=softmax(QKTdk)V{\text{Attention}}(Q, K, V) = \text{softmax}\left(\frac{QK^{T}}{\sqrt{d_k}}\right)V