attentions

noun

(uncountable) Mental focus.

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

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

(uncountable, machine learning) A kind of prioritisation technique in neural networks that assigns soft weights between tokens from two (or more) input sequences in order to compute the required output.

Roots

tendotent- · Latin · stretch

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