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title: "Attention score matrix mathematical notation"
description: "Attention score matrix is a recurring research-paper notation family. Contains every query-key dot product before scaling, masking, and normalization."
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# Attention score matrix mathematical notation

Attention score matrix is a recurring research-paper notation family. Contains every query-key dot product before scaling, masking, and normalization.

## Public overview

Attention score matrix: Contains every query-key dot product before scaling, masking, and normalization. Example: Entry i j measures how strongly query position i matches key position j.

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