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# init(modelDimension:headCount:)

Creates a multi-head attention descriptor with the model dimension and number of parallel attention heads you specify.

```
convenience init(modelDimension: Int, headCount: Int)
```

## Parameters

`modelDimension`

The total dimension of model space.

`headCount`

The number of parallel attention heads.

## Discussion

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