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Visual attention is a mechanism closely intertwined with vision and memory. Top-down information influences visual processing through attention. We designed a neural network model inspired by aspects of human visual attention. This model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ruoyang Hu , Robert A. Jacobs

Many hallmarks of human intelligence, such as generalizing from limited experience, abstract reasoning and planning, analogical reasoning, creative problem solving, and capacity for language require the ability to consolidate experience…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Igor Mordatch

How does the brain control attention? The Attention Schema Theory suggests that the brain explicitly models its state of attention, termed an attention schema, for its control. However, it remains unclear under which circumstances an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-09 Lotta Piefke , Adrien Doerig , Tim Kietzmann , Sushrut Thorat

This chapter reviews recent computational models of visual attention. We begin with models for the bottom-up or stimulus-driven guidance of attention to salient visual items, which we examine in seven different broad categories. We then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Laurent Itti , Ali Borji

[Purpose] To understand the meaning of a sentence, humans can focus on important words in the sentence, which reflects our eyes staying on each word in different gaze time or times. Thus, some studies utilize eye-tracking values to optimize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Lei Zhao , Yingyi Zhang , Chengzhi Zhang

Attention is a state of arousal capable of dealing with limited processing bottlenecks in human beings by focusing selectively on one piece of information while ignoring other perceptible information. For decades, concepts and functions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Alana Santana , Esther Colombini

Attending to what is relevant is fundamental to both the mammalian brain and modern machine learning models such as Transformers. Yet, determining relevance remains a core challenge, traditionally offloaded to learning algorithms like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ahsan Adeel

To develop computational agents that better communicate using their own emergent language, we endow the agents with an ability to focus their attention on particular concepts in the environment. Humans often understand an object or scene as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Ryokan Ri , Ryo Ueda , Jason Naradowsky

Existing attention mechanisms are trained to attend to individual items in a collection (the memory) with a predefined, fixed granularity, e.g., a word token or an image grid. We propose area attention: a way to attend to areas in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Yang Li , Lukasz Kaiser , Samy Bengio , Si Si

Diverse and extensive work has recently been conducted on text-conditioned human motion generation. However, progress in the reverse direction, motion captioning, has seen less comparable advancement. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Karim Radouane , Julien Lagarde , Sylvie Ranwez , Andon Tchechmedjiev

Perception-driven approach and end-to-end system are two major vision-based frameworks for self-driving cars. However, it is difficult to introduce attention and historical information of autonomous driving process, which are the essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Shitao Chen , Songyi Zhang , Jinghao Shang , Badong Chen , Nanning Zheng

Top-down attention allows people to focus on task-relevant visual information. Is the resulting perceptual boost task-dependent in naturalistic settings? We aim to answer this with a large-scale computational experiment. First, we design a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Freddie Bickford Smith , Xiaoliang Luo , Brett D. Roads , Bradley C. Love

Short text classification is one of important tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Unlike paragraphs or documents, short texts are more ambiguous since they have not enough contextual information, which poses a great challenge for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Jindong Chen , Yizhou Hu , Jingping Liu , Yanghua Xiao , Haiyun Jiang

Attention is fundamental to cognition, yet it remains a challenge to understand attention in tasks approaching real-world complexity. Here, we approached this problem by modeling gaze patterns of monkeys playing Pac-Man. We first show a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-12 Zhongqiao Lin , Yunwei Li , Tianming Yang

Attentional Neural Network is a new framework that integrates top-down cognitive bias and bottom-up feature extraction in one coherent architecture. The top-down influence is especially effective when dealing with high noise or difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Qian Wang , Jiaxing Zhang , Sen Song , Zheng Zhang

Inspired by the human cognitive system, attention is a mechanism that imitates the human cognitive awareness about specific information, amplifying critical details to focus more on the essential aspects of data. Deep learning has employed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mohammed Hassanin , Saeed Anwar , Ibrahim Radwan , Fahad S Khan , Ajmal Mian

Attention mechanisms have recently boosted performance on a range of NLP tasks. Because attention layers explicitly weight input components' representations, it is also often assumed that attention can be used to identify information that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Sofia Serrano , Noah A. Smith

It is known that when multiple stimuli are present, top-down attention selectively enhances the neural signal in the visual cortex for task-relevant stimuli, but this has been tested only under conditions of minimal competition of visual…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-01 Omar Claflin

Humans possess a remarkable ability to acquire knowledge efficiently and apply it across diverse modalities through a coherent and shared understanding of the world. Inspired by this cognitive capability, we introduce a concept-centric…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yuchong Geng , Ao Tang

Understanding complex machine learning models such as deep neural networks with explanations is crucial in various applications. Many explanations stem from the model perspective, and may not necessarily effectively communicate why the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Chih-Kuan Yeh , Been Kim , Pradeep Ravikumar