def _multihead_attention(self, memory):
    """Perform multi-head attention from 'Attention is All You Need'.

    Implementation of the attention mechanism from
    https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762.

    Args:
      memory: Memory tensor to perform attention on.

    Returns:
      new_memory: New memory tensor.
    """
    key_size = self._key_size
    value_size = self._head_size

    qkv_size = 2 * key_size + value_size
    total_size = qkv_size * self._num_heads  # Denote as F.
    qkv = basic.BatchApply(basic.Linear(total_size))(memory)
    qkv = basic.BatchApply(layer_norm.LayerNorm())(qkv)

    mem_slots = memory.get_shape().as_list()[1]  # Denoted as N.

    # [B, N, F] -> [B, N, H, F/H]
    qkv_reshape = basic.BatchReshape([mem_slots, self._num_heads,
                                      qkv_size])(qkv)

    # [B, N, H, F/H] -> [B, H, N, F/H]
    qkv_transpose = tf.transpose(qkv_reshape, [0, 2, 1, 3])
    q, k, v = tf.split(qkv_transpose, [key_size, key_size, value_size], -1)

    q *= key_size ** -0.5
    dot_product = tf.matmul(q, k, transpose_b=True)  # [B, H, N, N]
    weights = tf.nn.softmax(dot_product)

    output = tf.matmul(weights, v)  # [B, H, N, V]

    # [B, H, N, V] -> [B, N, H, V]
    output_transpose = tf.transpose(output, [0, 2, 1, 3])

    # [B, N, H, V] -> [B, N, H * V]
    new_memory = basic.BatchFlatten(preserve_dims=2)(output_transpose)
    return new_memory