Talking-Heads Attention

5 Mar 2020  ·  Noam Shazeer, Zhenzhong Lan, Youlong Cheng, Nan Ding, Le Hou ·

We introduce "talking-heads attention" - a variation on multi-head attention which includes linearprojections across the attention-heads dimension, immediately before and after the softmax operation.While inserting only a small number of additional parameters and a moderate amount of additionalcomputation, talking-heads attention leads to better perplexities on masked language modeling tasks, aswell as better quality when transfer-learning to language comprehension and question answering tasks.

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