From the PyTorch Seq2Seq tutorial, http://pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/seq2seq_translation_tutorial.html#attention-decoder 10
We see that the attention mechanism is heavily reliant on the MAX_LENGTH parameter to determine the output dimensions of the attn -> attn_softmax -> attn_weights, i.e.
class AttnDecoderRNN(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, hidden_size, output_size, dropout_p=0.1, max_length=MAX_LENGTH):
        super(AttnDecoderRNN, self).__init__()
        self.hidden_size = hidden_size
        self.output_size = output_size
        self.dropout_p = dropout_p
        self.max_length = max_length

        self.embedding = nn.Embedding(self.output_size, self.hidden_size)
        self.attn = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size * 2, self.max_length)
        self.attn_combine = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size * 2, self.hidden_size)
        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(self.dropout_p)
        self.gru = nn.GRU(self.hidden_size, self.hidden_size)
        self.out = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.output_size)

More specifically
self.attn = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size * 2, self.max_length)

I understand that the MAX_LENGTH variable is the mechanism to reduce the no. of parameters that needs to be trained in the AttentionDecoderRNN.
If we don’t have a MAX_LENGTH pre-determined. What values should we initialize the attn layer with?
Would it be the output_size? If so, then that’ll be learning the attention with respect to the full vocabulary in the target language. Isn’t that the real intention of the Bahdanau (2015) attention paper?