diff --git a/src/batdetect2/models/blocks.py b/src/batdetect2/models/blocks.py
index 9acd36d..1e39031 100644
--- a/src/batdetect2/models/blocks.py
+++ b/src/batdetect2/models/blocks.py
@@ -174,6 +174,22 @@ class SelfAttention(nn.Module):
 
         return op
 
+    def compute_attention_weights(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        x = x.squeeze(2).permute(0, 2, 1)
+
+        key = torch.matmul(
+            x, self.key_fun.weight.T
+        ) + self.key_fun.bias.unsqueeze(0).unsqueeze(0)
+        query = torch.matmul(
+            x, self.query_fun.weight.T
+        ) + self.query_fun.bias.unsqueeze(0).unsqueeze(0)
+
+        kk_qq = torch.bmm(key, query.permute(0, 2, 1)) / (
+            self.temperature * self.att_dim
+        )
+        att_weights = F.softmax(kk_qq, 1)
+        return att_weights
+
 
 class ConvConfig(BaseConfig):
     """Configuration for a basic ConvBlock."""