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What is exactly the attention mechanism introduced to RNN (recurrent neural network)? It would be nice if you could make it easy to understand!
That makes sense! How does the attention mechanism differ from traditional RNN models?
In traditional RNN models, the hidden state of the network is used to encode all of the information about the input sequence. With the attention mechanism, the model can capture more fine-grained information by selectively attending to specific parts of the input sequence.