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Content-based Attention

33 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Alex Graves et al. in Neural Turing Machines

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Content-based attention is an attention mechanism based on cosine similarity:

fₐₜₜ(hᵢ, sⱼ) = cos[hᵢ;sⱼ]

It was utilised in Neural Turing Machines as part of the Addressing Mechanism.

We produce a normalized attention weighting by taking a softmax over these attention alignment scores.

PaperSourceSee Code · loudinthecloud/pytorch-ntm

Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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TaskPapers
Decoder5
Question Answering5
Machine Translation3
Speech Recognition3
Translation3
speech-recognition3
Automatic Speech Recognition2
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)2
BIG-bench Machine Learning2
Image Classification2
Information Retrieval2
Retrieval2
Sentence2
image-classification2
Action Detection1
Activity Detection1
Classification1
Cloze Test1
Common Sense Reasoning1
Deep Attention1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Content-based Attention: 2014 to 2025, peak 5 5 0 2014: 1 paper 2014 2015: 3 papers 2015 2016: 5 papers 2016 2017: 3 papers 2017 2018: 4 papers 2018 2019: 5 papers 2019 2020: 3 papers 2020 2021: 1 paper 2021 2022: 4 papers 2022 2023: 3 papers 2023 2024: 0 papers 2024 2025: 1 paper 2025
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (33 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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