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Policy-gradient objective
Maximizes expected reward by adjusting policy parameters θ in the direction of higher-advantage actions. Variance-reduced via the advantage function Aπ in place of raw returns.
Best: Ours-L 87.4% top-1 @ 124M params
Linear accuracy gain with model size; diminishing returns past 56M. 7× FLOPs cost from S→L for +3.2 pts top-1.
Attention concentrates on tokens 5–6 early, disperses by layer 4
Heatmap shows sharp peaks in layers 1–2 for content tokens, with broadening receptive field by layer 4. Consistent with finding in §4.2.
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Attention mechanisms in modern transformer architectures
Introduction
Attention reshaped how sequence models capture long-range dependencies3. The field consolidated around self-attention after1 showed recurrence could be discarded; pretraining work2 then proved attention layers transfer across NLP tasks.
Themes
Three themes emerge. Architectural minimalism1 prioritizes parallelism. Bidirectional context2 reframes pretraining as denoising. Soft alignment3 anticipated both, reframing translation as attention-weighted lookup.
Methods
All three works rely on dot-product or additive attention13, scale to large parallel training, and report ablations on heads and alignment depth. Evaluation centers on translation BLEU13 and downstream NLP benchmarks2.
Gaps
Two gaps stand out. The corpus is silent on the compute–quality trade-off — none report wall-clock or energy budgets. Second, the analysis of failure modes (attention sinks, head collapse) has not yet entered this slice of the literature.
Conclusion
The arc runs from soft alignment as an addition to RNNs3, to attention as the only mechanism1, to attention as substrate for transferable pretraining2. Future reviews should incorporate efficiency- and analysis-oriented work.
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