fix(docs): clarify scaled dot-product attention rationale - #840
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Explain how unscaled logits can saturate Softmax in both Chinese and English. Refs datawhalechina#835
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sqrt(d_k)Rationale
The previous wording stated that scaling prevents gradients from becoming too small, but did not explain the mechanism. The revised text follows the rationale in Attention Is All You Need: as
d_kgrows, unscaled dot products can grow in magnitude and push Softmax into saturated regions; scaling controls the score magnitude and stabilizes training.Reference: https://papers.neurips.cc/paper/7181-attention-is-all-you-need.pdf
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git diff --checkFixes #835