Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Drawing on the concept of variance in mathematics, local variance loss is defined as the reciprocal of its variance expecting the attention model to be able to focus on more salient parts. The standard variance calculation is based on the mean of the distribution. However, as previous work BIBREF15, BIBREF16 mentioned that the median value is more robust to outliers than the mean value, we use the median value to calculate the variance of the attention distribution. Thus, local variance loss can be calculated as:

where $\hat{\cdot }$ is a median operator and $\epsilon $ is utilized to avoid zero in the denominator. 
 Question: How do they define local variance?
Output (English): The reciprocal of the variance of the attention distribution