def call(self, x, y, bias, cache=None):
    """Apply attention mechanism to x and y.

    Args:
      x: a tensor with shape [batch_size, length_x, hidden_size]
      y: a tensor with shape [batch_size, length_y, hidden_size]
      bias: attention bias that will be added to the result of the dot product.
      cache: (Used during prediction) dictionary with tensors containing results
        of previous attentions. The dictionary must have the items:
            {"k": tensor with shape [batch_size, i, key_channels],
             "v": tensor with shape [batch_size, i, value_channels]}
        where i is the current decoded length.

    Returns:
      Attention layer output with shape [batch_size, length_x, hidden_size]
    """
    # Linearly project the query (q), key (k) and value (v) using different
    # learned projections. This is in preparation of splitting them into
    # multiple heads. Multi-head attention uses multiple queries, keys, and
    # values rather than regular attention (which uses a single q, k, v).
    q = self.q_dense_layer(x)
    k = self.k_dense_layer(y)
    v = self.v_dense_layer(y)

    if cache is not None:
      # Combine cached keys and values with new keys and values.
      k = tf.concat([cache["k"], k], axis=1)
      v = tf.concat([cache["v"], v], axis=1)

      # Update cache
      cache["k"] = k
      cache["v"] = v

    # Split q, k, v into heads.
    q = self.split_heads(q)
    k = self.split_heads(k)
    v = self.split_heads(v)

    # Scale q to prevent the dot product between q and k from growing too large.
    depth = (self.hidden_size // self.num_heads)
    q *= depth ** -0.5

    # Calculate dot product attention
    logits = tf.matmul(q, k, transpose_b=True)
    logits += bias
    weights = tf.nn.softmax(logits, name="attention_weights")
    if self.train:
      mlperf_log.transformer_print(
          key=mlperf_log.MODEL_HP_ATTENTION_DROPOUT,
          value=self.attention_dropout)
      weights = tf.nn.dropout(weights, 1.0 - self.attention_dropout)
    attention_output = tf.matmul(weights, v)

    # Recombine heads --> [batch_size, length, hidden_size]
    attention_output = self.combine_heads(attention_output)

    # Run the combined outputs through another linear projection layer.
    attention_output = self.output_dense_layer(attention_output)
    return attention_output