Equation 5 · Part 11 · From n-Grams to Reasoning Models: A Technical History of the Language Model
subscript
subscript
What this part means
The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.
Its job in the formula
A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.
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The passage around this formula
Bahdanau, Cho and Bengio proposed letting the decoder search the source for the parts relevant to each output word, rather than reading from a single compressed vector [ 9 ] . The decoder computes, at each output step i , a context vector as a weighted sum of all encoder states: . The capacity of the intermediate representation now grows with the input rather than being fixed in advance. They further reported that the learned alignments corresponded well with human linguistic intuition — an interpretability result that arrived free with a performance fix, which is rare.
Learn the underlying idea
A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
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