The attention mechanism in theory has an infinite window to reference from given enough compute resources, allowing it to use the entire context of a sequence while generating text, unlike RNNs which cannot access words generated earlier.

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the attention mechanism in theory and given enough compute resources have an infinite window to reference from therefore being capable of using the entire context of the story

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Illustrated Guide to Transformers Neural Network: A step by step explanationThe AI Hacker
Created: 8/13/2026, 9:51:15 AM

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