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[P] I replaced Dot-Product Attention with distance-based RBF-Attention (so you don't have to...)

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Wednesday, Apr 1, 2026 · 6:14AM
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I recently asked myself what would happen if we replaced the standard dot-product in self-attention with a different distance metric, e.g. an rbf-kernel? Standard dot-product attention has this quirk where a key vector can "bully" the softmax simply by having a massive magnitude. A random key that p

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