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Transformer encoder layer

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An encoder layer is a transformer block that combines self-attention and a position-wise feed-forward network, typically with normalization and residual connections.

A transformer encoder layer combines multi-head self-attention with a position-wise feed-forward network. Layer normalization and residual connections stabilize the two-stage transformation, while stacking layers increases representation capacity and supports hierarchical feature extraction. section 3.3.4

Trace an input sequence through the layer:

Normalize the input, then apply multi-head self-attention so each position can incorporate information from the sequence. section 3.3.4
Add the attention output back to the original input through a residual connection. section 3.3.4
Normalize the result and pass each position independently through a two-layer feed-forward network with an intermediate expansion and GELU activation. section 3.3.4

Vision-transformer encoder

For image classification, convert an image into patches, project each patch into an embedding, add positional encodings, and pass the sequence through four identical encoder layers. A final linear layer maps the resulting representation to ten CIFAR-10 class values. The same pattern can encode image patches for an image-captioning encoder. section 3.1.2 section 4.3.1

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multi-head attentionhas part · Multi-head attention is an attention mechanism that computes multiple attention operations in parallel using distinct learned projections and combines their outputs.
feedforward networkhas part · A feedforward network is a neural network or subnetwork in which information flows from inputs toward outputs through successive computations without recurrent connections or cycles.
encoder-only transformerpart of · An encoder-only Transformer is a Transformer model composed of encoder layers that process an input sequence into contextual representations without a separate decoder.
layer normalizationhas part · Layer normalization standardizes neural-network activations across specified feature dimensions for each example independently, often applying learned scale and bias parameters.
residual connectionhas part · A residual connection is a neural-network pathway that carries an earlier representation around one or more transformations to a later computation, where it can be combined with the transformed representation.
transformer architecturepart of · A transformer architecture is a neural-network architecture that processes sequences or other structured inputs using attention mechanisms and related transformations.

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