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I am coming from Google BERT context (Bidirectional Encoder representations from Transformers). I have gone through architecture and codes. People say this is bidirectional by nature. To make it unidirectional attention some mask is to be applied.



Basically a transformer takes key, values and queries as input; uses encoder decoder architecture; and applies attention to these keys, queries and values. What I understood is we need to pass tokens explicitly rather than transformer understanding this by nature.



Can someone please explain what makes transformer bidirectional by nature



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1. People confirmed that Transformer has Bidirectional nature, rather than an external code making it bidirectional.

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My doubt: We are passing Q K V embeddings to transformer, to which it applies N layers of self attention using ScaledDotMatrix attention. Same thing can be done by unidirection approach as well. May I know what part I am missing in my understanding. If someone can point to code where it is getting bidirectional, it would be a great help.










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    Asking question in datascience forum, as this forum seems well suited for data science related questions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55158554/how-transformer-is-bidirectional-machine-learning/55158766?noredirect=1#comment97066160_55158766



    I am coming from Google BERT context (Bidirectional Encoder representations from Transformers). I have gone through architecture and codes. People say this is bidirectional by nature. To make it unidirectional attention some mask is to be applied.



    Basically a transformer takes key, values and queries as input; uses encoder decoder architecture; and applies attention to these keys, queries and values. What I understood is we need to pass tokens explicitly rather than transformer understanding this by nature.



    Can someone please explain what makes transformer bidirectional by nature



    Answer received so far:

    1. People confirmed that Transformer has Bidirectional nature, rather than an external code making it bidirectional.

    2.
    My doubt: We are passing Q K V embeddings to transformer, to which it applies N layers of self attention using ScaledDotMatrix attention. Same thing can be done by unidirection approach as well. May I know what part I am missing in my understanding. If someone can point to code where it is getting bidirectional, it would be a great help.










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      Asking question in datascience forum, as this forum seems well suited for data science related questions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55158554/how-transformer-is-bidirectional-machine-learning/55158766?noredirect=1#comment97066160_55158766



      I am coming from Google BERT context (Bidirectional Encoder representations from Transformers). I have gone through architecture and codes. People say this is bidirectional by nature. To make it unidirectional attention some mask is to be applied.



      Basically a transformer takes key, values and queries as input; uses encoder decoder architecture; and applies attention to these keys, queries and values. What I understood is we need to pass tokens explicitly rather than transformer understanding this by nature.



      Can someone please explain what makes transformer bidirectional by nature



      Answer received so far:

      1. People confirmed that Transformer has Bidirectional nature, rather than an external code making it bidirectional.

      2.
      My doubt: We are passing Q K V embeddings to transformer, to which it applies N layers of self attention using ScaledDotMatrix attention. Same thing can be done by unidirection approach as well. May I know what part I am missing in my understanding. If someone can point to code where it is getting bidirectional, it would be a great help.










      share|improve this question











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      Asking question in datascience forum, as this forum seems well suited for data science related questions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55158554/how-transformer-is-bidirectional-machine-learning/55158766?noredirect=1#comment97066160_55158766



      I am coming from Google BERT context (Bidirectional Encoder representations from Transformers). I have gone through architecture and codes. People say this is bidirectional by nature. To make it unidirectional attention some mask is to be applied.



      Basically a transformer takes key, values and queries as input; uses encoder decoder architecture; and applies attention to these keys, queries and values. What I understood is we need to pass tokens explicitly rather than transformer understanding this by nature.



      Can someone please explain what makes transformer bidirectional by nature



      Answer received so far:

      1. People confirmed that Transformer has Bidirectional nature, rather than an external code making it bidirectional.

      2.
      My doubt: We are passing Q K V embeddings to transformer, to which it applies N layers of self attention using ScaledDotMatrix attention. Same thing can be done by unidirection approach as well. May I know what part I am missing in my understanding. If someone can point to code where it is getting bidirectional, it would be a great help.







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