Equation 5 · Part 18 · From n-Grams to Reasoning Models: A Technical History of the Language Model
Ending index or upper bound: T_x
What this part means
This label says where the repeated addition, multiplication, or accumulation stops. It sets the last term or end of the range.
Its job in the formula
occurs below the fraction bar. The quantity above the bar is divided by this expression; zero is excluded as a denominator.
Full expression→Ending index or upper bound: T_x→Article meaning
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.
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Σ adds a collection of terms. Π multiplies them. The lower and upper labels tell you which terms belong to the collection.
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