# Week 8: Attention and Transformers

Attention in vision models, soft and hard attention for captioning, visual question answering and dialog, and self-attention.

## Lectures

1. [Attention Models in Vision: An Introduction](<../notebooks/Week 8/W08_L1_Attention_in_Vision_Models.ipynb>)
2. [Soft and Hard Attention: Image Captioning](<../notebooks/Week 8/W08_L2_Soft_and_Hard_Attention.ipynb>)
3. [Beyond Captioning: Visual QA and Visual Dialog](<../notebooks/Week 8/W08_L3_Beyond_Captioning_VQA_and_Dialog.ipynb>)
4. [Self-Attention and Transformers](<../notebooks/Week 8/W08_L4_Self_Attention_and_Transformers.ipynb>)