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Kyunghyun ChoguestUnrated

The attention mechanism was a brilliant and immediate breakthrough that successfully addressed the vanishing gradient problem in neural machine translation.

“about halfway this was one of those very few if not the only ideas that I've seen where I could sense immediately that they it was going to work”

Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn · Mar 2026 · 1 episode · 124K views on this topic

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