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Attention Mechanism MCQ
10 Conceptual Questions with In-Depth Technical Explanations
Dissect Scaled Dot-Product Attention: Query, Key, Value matrices, softmax normalization, and multi-head attention.
Attention Mechanism Questions
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Why are dot-product attention scores divided by the scaling factor sqrt(d_k)?
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In the Query-Key-Value (Q, K, V) retrieval analogy, what does each matrix represent conceptually?
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What is 'Multi-Head Attention' (MHA), and why is having multiple heads superior to a single large attention head?
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What is Multi-Query Attention (MQA, Shazeer, 2019)?
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What is Grouped-Query Attention (GQA, Ainslie et al., 2023) used in LLaMA-2-70B and LLaMA-3?
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What is the 'KV Cache' in autoregressive LLM inference, and why is it essential?
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What was the Bahdanau Additive Attention mechanism (Bahdanau et al., 2014) historically designed for?
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What is Cross-Attention in an Encoder-Decoder Transformer (e.g., T5, Whisper)?
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What is Linear Attention (e.g., Performer, Linear Transformer)?
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