English Dictionary

attention

/əˈtɛn.ʃən/

noun

(uncountable) Mental focus. / (countable) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.

Pay attention to the details.

意味（1）

(uncountable) Mental focus.

Please direct your attention to the following words.

意味（2）

(countable) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.

She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper.

意味（3）

(uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position.

The company will now come to attention.

意味（4）

(uncountable, machine learning) A technique in neural networks that mimics cognitive attention, enhancing the important parts of the input data while giving less priority to the rest.

The attention mechanism is an important part of these models and plays a very crucial role. Before Transformer models, the attention mechanism was proposed as a helper for improving conventional DL models such as RNNs.