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Modified Attention Mechanism Implementation
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Modified Attention Mechanism Implementation

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Problem

Implement the attention mechanism with specific modifications.

Implement attention(q, k, v, causal, mask, temperature) using scaled dot-product attention. Apply causal masking and an optional boolean mask, then divide logits by temperature before softmax. Return [output, weights], where both values are nested lists. Round every returned floating-point value to 6 decimal places. Inputs contain one attention head, and every query has at least one permitted key.

Constraints

  • 1 <= len(q) <= 256
  • len(q) == len(mask) when mask is provided
  • 1 <= len(k) == len(v) <= 256
  • 1 <= len(q[i]) == len(k[j])
  • len(v[j]) >= 1
  • temperature > 0
  • Every query has at least one permitted key
  • All numeric entries are finite real numbers

Function Signature

def attention(q, k, v, causal, mask, temperature):
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