The attention mechanism in the Transformer architecture is a technique that allows the model to focus on the most relevant parts of the input and output sequences. It computes a weighted sum of the input or output embeddings, where the weights indicate how much each word contributes to the representation of the current word. The attention mechanism helps the model capture the long-range dependencies and the semantic relationships between words in a sequence12. Reference: The Transformer Attention Mechanism - MachineLearningMastery.com, Attention Mechanism in the Transformers Model - Baeldung