Text-to-speech stumbles on notation
Most readers spell symbols out or skip them, so “softmax(QKᵀ/√dₖ)V” turns into noise and the argument is lost.
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Attention(Q, K, V) = softmax(QKᵀ / √dₖ)V
Aethel says
Attention of Q, K, V equals softmax of the quantity QK transpose over the square root of d sub k, times V
Vaswani et al., “Attention Is All You Need”, NeurIPS 2017, equation 1
P(A|B) = P(B|A) P(A) / P(B)
Aethel says
P of A given B equals P of B given A, times P of A, over P of B
σ² = (1/n) Σᵢ (xᵢ − μ)²
Aethel says
sigma squared equals the quantity 1 over n, the sum over i of the quantity x sub i minus mu, squared
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Which arXiv links work?
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