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AUTO-ATTENTION [2 records]

Record 1 2024-09-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

The transformer architecture discards the use of recurrence-based networks, instead relying on self-attention mechanisms to process input sequences. ... While global attention considers the importance of each word relative to the entire input sequence, self-attention deciphers dependencies between words within the sequence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

Le mécanisme d’auto-attention permet à chaque position de la séquence d’entrée de s’occuper de toutes les autres positions, capturant les dépendances quelle que soit leur distance dans la séquence.

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports (General)
  • Physical Education, Coaching and Sport Psychology
CONT

Playing before a supportive but expectant audience can increase the cost of not winning, thereby leading to self-attention and "pressure" on the part of an athlete or a team.

CONT

To elaborate, they noted that the prospect of a desired identity change (i.e., a redefinition of self from a contender to a champion) tends to increase self-attention (Schlenker & Leary, 1982).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports (Généralités)
  • Éducation physique, entraînement des athlètes et psychologie du sport
CONT

L'analyse démontre que l'auto-attention agit en interaction avec trois facteurs majeurs : l'anxiété, les déterminants physiologiques, l'expérience et le style de vie. Les auteurs proposent un modèle théorique selon lequel cette interaction peut situer un individu sur un continuum d’effets allant de très néfastes à très benéfiques, en fonction de sa prédisposition plus ou moins grande à l'auto-attention.

Spanish

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