{
  "id": "bahuleyan2018",
  "title": "Variational Attention for Sequence-to-Sequence Models",
  "authors": [
    {
      "given": "Hareesh",
      "family": "Bahuleyan"
    },
    {
      "given": "Lili",
      "family": "Mou"
    },
    {
      "given": "Olga",
      "family": "Vechtomova"
    },
    {
      "given": "Pascal",
      "family": "Poupart"
    }
  ],
  "year": 2018,
  "venue": "COLING 2018",
  "paper_url": "https://aclanthology.org/C18-1142/",
  "pdf_url": "https://aclanthology.org/C18-1142.pdf",
  "summary": "Treats attention context vectors as Gaussian latent variables in a variational encoder-decoder.",
  "connection": "Clarifies that the term variational attention also names a different random object: the context vector.",
  "bibtex_type": "inproceedings",
  "citation_key": "bahuleyan2018variational",
  "source_urls": [
    "https://aclanthology.org/C18-1142/",
    "https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.08207"
  ],
  "arxiv_id": "1712.08207",
  "arxiv_first_posted": "2017-12-21",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-10",
  "record_url": "https://yuntiandeng.com/research/papers/bahuleyan2018/"
}