Efficient Attention Mechanisms and Memory Optimization in Deep Learning
Attention Mechanisms
Multi-Head Attention
The attention mechanism computes:
The scaling factor \(\sqrt{d_k}\) prevents large inner product values that could cause gradient instability. Assuming Q and K elements have mean 0 and variance \(\sigma^2\), the variance of \(QK^T\) grows with \(d_k\). Scaling by \(\sqrt{d_k}\) maintains stable varianc ...
Posted on Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:39:50 +0000 by bschaeffer