How to pronounce ALiBi

ALiBi is most commonly pronounced "al uh by" (/ˈæləbaɪ/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

ALiBi = Attention with Linear Biases, a transformer position method used in BLOOM and MPT. The camelCase ALiBi cues that it reads as the everyday English word "alibi" (STRESS: AL-uh-by, first syllable) — not spelled out A-L-I-B-I, and the "-bi" is long-i ("by"), not "bee". Paper/GitHub don't document the pronunciation, so community-consensus, but the wordplay is unambiguous.

Source: arXiv 2108.12409 — Train Short, Test Long: Attention with Linear Biases (ALiBi), Press et al., ICLR 2022

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