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What makes an attention mechanism self-attention?

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  1. It changes its optimizer
  2. It labels its own data
  3. Queries, keys, and values share a sequence

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  1. Attention Is All You Need arxiv.org/html/1706.03762 Checked 2026-10-10.

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