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Adding Attention Mechanisms to Language Translation RNNs in PyTorch - Lab 4.8

Donato Capitella via YouTube

Overview

Learn how to enhance a language translation Recurrent Neural Network by implementing an attention mechanism in PyTorch through this hands-on coding tutorial. Follow along with detailed implementations of Bahdanau's attention method from the influential 2015 paper on neural machine translation, starting with a simple attention mechanism before integrating it into the decoder architecture. Master the training process, evaluate model performance, and visualize attention matrices to understand how the model learns to align and translate between languages. Access the provided Colab notebook to practice implementing concepts like attention-based forward passes, training loops, and model evaluation while comparing the implementation to Bahdanau's original approach.

Syllabus

- Bahdanau Paper on Attention/Alingment
- Implementing a Simple Attention Mechanism
- Add Attention to the Decoder
- Inference / Forward Pass with Attention
- Training Loop
- Using/Evaluating the Trained Model
- Visualizing the Attention Matrix
- Comparing Our Attention Model to Bahdanau's

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Donato Capitella

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