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tensorflow/tensor2tensor v1.0.14 @ 0c66117 · arXiv:1706.03762v7 · WMT 2014 English–German · vocabulary of about 37,000 · no trained weights were publishedHow to read

Masked multi-head self-attention

Decoder 6 layers › Masked attention

Key heads

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8 heads of keys.

shape
KK [B batch, 8 heads, T target positions, 64 d_k]
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Contextual evidence from Prepare Q, K, V

Self-attention projects queries, keys and values with one 1×1 convolution; attention to a memory projects queries from the input and keys and values from the memory; heads are split, queries scaled by depth^-0.5, attended, combined and projected out.

multihead · tensorflow/tensor2tensor / tensor2tensor/models/common_attention.py
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def multihead_attention(query_antecedent,
                        memory_antecedent,
                        bias,
                        total_key_depth,
                        total_value_depth,
                        output_depth,
                        num_heads,
                        dropout_rate,
                        summaries=False,
                        image_shapes=None,
                        name=None):
  """Multihead scaled-dot-product attention with input/output transformations.

  Args:
    query_antecedent: a Tensor with shape [batch, length_q, channels]
    memory_antecedent: a Tensor with shape [batch, length_m, channels]
    bias: bias Tensor (see attention_bias())
    total_key_depth: an integer
    total_value_depth: an integer
    output_depth: an integer
    num_heads: an integer dividing total_key_depth and total_value_depth
    dropout_rate: a floating point number
    summaries: a boolean
    image_shapes: optional tuple of integer scalars.
      see comments for attention_image_summary()
    name: an optional string

  Returns:
    A Tensor.

  Raises:
    ValueError: if the key depth or value depth are not divisible by the
      number of attention heads.
  """
  if total_key_depth % num_heads != 0:
    raise ValueError("Key depth (%d) must be divisible by the number of "
                     "attention heads (%d)." % (total_key_depth, num_heads))
  if total_value_depth % num_heads != 0:
    raise ValueError("Value depth (%d) must be divisible by the number of "
                     "attention heads (%d)." % (total_value_depth, num_heads))

  with tf.variable_scope(
      name,
      default_name="multihead_attention",
      values=[query_antecedent, memory_antecedent]):
    if memory_antecedent is None:
      # self attention
      combined = common_layers.conv1d(
          query_antecedent,
          total_key_depth * 2 + total_value_depth,
          1,
          name="qkv_transform")
      q, k, v = tf.split(
          combined, [total_key_depth, total_key_depth, total_value_depth],
          axis=2)
    else:
      q = common_layers.conv1d(
          query_antecedent, total_key_depth, 1, name="q_transform")
      combined = common_layers.conv1d(
          memory_antecedent,
          total_key_depth + total_value_depth,
          1,
          name="kv_transform")
      k, v = tf.split(combined, [total_key_depth, total_value_depth], axis=2)
    q = split_heads(q, num_heads)
    k = split_heads(k, num_heads)
    v = split_heads(v, num_heads)
    key_depth_per_head = total_key_depth // num_heads
    q *= key_depth_per_head**-0.5
    x = dot_product_attention(
        q, k, v, bias, dropout_rate, summaries, image_shapes)
    x = combine_heads(x)
    x = common_layers.conv1d(x, output_depth, 1, name="output_transform")
    return x

Contextual evidence from Prepare Q, K, V

Split the last axis into heads and move heads before positions; combine reverses it.

heads · tensorflow/tensor2tensor / tensor2tensor/models/common_attention.py
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def split_heads(x, num_heads):
  """Split channels (dimension 3) into multiple heads (becomes dimension 1).

  Args:
    x: a Tensor with shape [batch, length, channels]
    num_heads: an integer

  Returns:
    a Tensor with shape [batch, num_heads, length, channels / num_heads]
  """
  return tf.transpose(split_last_dimension(x, num_heads), [0, 2, 1, 3])


def combine_heads(x):
  """Inverse of split_heads.

  Args:
    x: a Tensor with shape [batch, num_heads, length, channels / num_heads]

  Returns:
    a Tensor with shape [batch, length, channels]
  """
  return combine_last_two_dimensions(tf.transpose(x, [0, 2, 1, 3]))

Contextual evidence from Prepare Q, K, V

conv1d is a 1×1 tf.layers.conv2d, which owns a kernel and a bias.

conv1d · tensorflow/tensor2tensor / tensor2tensor/models/common_layers.py
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def conv(inputs, filters, kernel_size, **kwargs):
  return conv_internal(tf.layers.conv2d, inputs, filters, kernel_size, **kwargs)


def conv1d(inputs, filters, kernel_size, **kwargs):
  return tf.squeeze(
      conv(tf.expand_dims(inputs, 2), filters, (kernel_size, 1), **kwargs), 2)

Contextual evidence from Scaled dot-product attention

Scaled scores are the product of queries and keys plus the bias; softmax over keys, dropout on the weights, then the weighted sum of values.

dot-product · tensorflow/tensor2tensor / tensor2tensor/models/common_attention.py
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def dot_product_attention(q,
                          k,
                          v,
                          bias,
                          dropout_rate=0.0,
                          summaries=False,
                          image_shapes=None,
                          name=None):
  """dot-product attention.

  Args:
    q: a Tensor with shape [batch, heads, length_q, depth_k]
    k: a Tensor with shape [batch, heads, length_kv, depth_k]
    v: a Tensor with shape [batch, heads, length_kv, depth_v]
    bias: bias Tensor (see attention_bias())
    dropout_rate: a floating point number
    summaries: a boolean
    image_shapes: optional tuple of integer scalars.
      see comments for attention_image_summary()
    name: an optional string

  Returns:
    A Tensor.
  """
  with tf.variable_scope(
      name, default_name="dot_product_attention", values=[q, k, v]):
    # [batch, num_heads, query_length, memory_length]
    logits = tf.matmul(q, k, transpose_b=True)
    if bias is not None:
      logits += bias
    weights = tf.nn.softmax(logits, name="attention_weights")
    # dropping out the attention links for each of the heads
    weights = tf.nn.dropout(weights, 1.0 - dropout_rate)
    if summaries and not tf.get_variable_scope().reuse:
      attention_image_summary(weights, image_shapes)
    return tf.matmul(weights, v)