What is the intuitive explanation of Attention Maps?

Question

I just came across this link. https://medium.com/moonvision/want-better-accuracy-for-classification-models-lets-use-attention-maps-6d687c8e7625

But I did not understand what exactly are those and how is it useful.

Answer 1

I think you should try and read through the attention paper, to have a better understanding of how the attention mechanism works in simple cases, you can read the following article on the subject, then you can try and understand how the same mechanism can be used to improve predictions on image data using attention maps.