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Attention mechanisms are central to modern Large Language Models (LLMs), revolutionizing NLP by enabling parallel processing and dynamic contextual understanding. Initially introduced by Bahdanau et al. in 2014 (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0473), the concept fully blossomed with Vaswani et al.'s 2017 (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762) transformer architecture, which relies solely on self-attention and multi-head attention. This breakthrough led to models like GPT and BERT, fostering the powerful "pre-training + fine-tuning" paradigm.
Despite their success, attention mechanisms face challenges like quadratic complexity, spurring research into efficient methods (sparse, linear, MQA/GQA). Ongoing efforts also address interpretability, robustness, and the "lost in the middle" problem for long contexts, ensuring LLMs become more reliable and understandable.
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Attention mechanisms are central to modern Large Language Models (LLMs), revolutionizing NLP by enabling parallel processing and dynamic contextual understanding. Initially introduced by Bahdanau et al. in 2014 (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0473), the concept fully blossomed with Vaswani et al.'s 2017 (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762) transformer architecture, which relies solely on self-attention and multi-head attention. This breakthrough led to models like GPT and BERT, fostering the powerful "pre-training + fine-tuning" paradigm.
Despite their success, attention mechanisms face challenges like quadratic complexity, spurring research into efficient methods (sparse, linear, MQA/GQA). Ongoing efforts also address interpretability, robustness, and the "lost in the middle" problem for long contexts, ensuring LLMs become more reliable and understandable.
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