# Self-Attention
**Domain:** Machine Learning / Transformer Architecture
**Doc Type:** Concept
**Maturity:** Developed
**Related:** [[Attention Mechanism]], [[Transformer Models]], [[Representation Learning]], [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]
## Definition
Self-attention computes relationships among elements within the same sequence, allowing each position to weight information from other positions.
## Bauhaus Architects Context
The 2017 transformer architecture made self-attention its primary sequence-processing mechanism.
## Backlinks
- [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]
- [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]