Receptive field

Sensory space

• In transformers, the receptive field is determined autoregressively via causal masking.

• In diffusion models, it expands through spatial locality and depth (layers).

Receptive field

The receptive field, or sensory space, is a delimited medium where some physiological stimuli can evoke a sensory neuronal response in specific organisms.[1]

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