A Beginner's Guide To Attention And Memory In Deep Learning

It might have never occurred to you how you could make sense of what your friend is blabbering at a loud party. There are all kinds of noises in a party; then how come we are perfectly able to carry out a conversation? This question is known widely as the'cocktail party problem'. Most of our cognitive processes can pay attention to only a single activity at a time. In the case of a party house, our capability of directing attention towards one set of words while ignoring other sets of words, which are often overpowering, is still a conundrum.