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Cloze-style queries are representative problems in reading comprehension. Over the past few months, we have seen much progress that utilizing neural network approach to solve Cloze-style questions. In this paper, we present a novel model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Yiming Cui , Zhipeng Chen , Si Wei , Shijin Wang , Ting Liu , Guoping Hu

Although transformer-based models have shown strong performance in word- and sentence-level tasks, effectively representing long documents, especially in fields like law and medicine, remains difficult. Sparse attention mechanisms can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Waheed Ahmed Abro , Zied Bouraoui

When humans read a text, their eye movements are influenced by the structural complexity of the input sentences. This cognitive phenomenon holds across languages and recent studies indicate that multilingual language models utilize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Charlotte Pouw , Nora Hollenstein , Lisa Beinborn

Neural source code summarization is the task of generating natural language descriptions of source code behavior using neural networks. A fundamental component of most neural models is an attention mechanism. The attention mechanism learns…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Aakash Bansal , Bonita Sharif , Collin McMillan

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

Advances in language modeling have led to the development of deep attention-based models that are performant across a wide variety of natural language processing (NLP) problems. These language models are typified by a pre-training process…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Joseph F DeRose , Jiayao Wang , Matthew Berger

Image classification models have achieved satisfactory performance on many datasets, sometimes even better than human. However, The model attention is unclear since the lack of interpretability. This paper investigates the fidelity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Wenjia Xu , Jiuniu Wang , Yang Wang , Guangluan Xu , Wei Dai , Yirong Wu

Recurrent neural networks with differentiable attention mechanisms have had success in generative and classification tasks. We show that the classification performance of such models can be enhanced by guiding a randomly initialized model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Jack Lindsey

The eye fixation patterns of human observers are a fundamental indicator of the aspects of an image to which humans attend. Thus, manipulating fixation patterns to guide human attention is an exciting challenge in digital image processing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Leon A. Gatys , Matthias Kümmerer , Thomas S. A. Wallis , Matthias Bethge

Understanding what makes a video memorable has important applications in advertising or education technology. Towards this goal, we investigate spatio-temporal attention mechanisms underlying video memorability. Different from previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Prajneya Kumar , Eshika Khandelwal , Makarand Tapaswi , Vishnu Sreekumar

Attention mechanisms represent a fundamental paradigm shift in neural network architectures, enabling models to selectively focus on relevant portions of input sequences through learned weighting functions. This monograph provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hasi Hays

Intuitively, human readers cope easily with errors in text; typos, misspelling, word substitutions, etc. do not unduly disrupt natural reading. Previous work indicates that letter transpositions result in increased reading times, but it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Michael Hahn , Frank Keller , Yonatan Bisk , Yonatan Belinkov

This paper launches a new effort at modeling programmer attention by predicting eye movement scanpaths. Programmer attention refers to what information people intake when performing programming tasks. Models of programmer attention refer to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Aakash Bansal , Chia-Yi Su , Zachary Karas , Yifan Zhang , Yu Huang , Toby Jia-Jun Li , Collin McMillan

Understanding reader behaviors such as skimming, deep reading, and scanning is essential for improving educational instruction. While prior eye-tracking studies have trained models to recognize reading behaviors, they often rely on…

Visual perception is critically influenced by the focus of attention. Due to limited resources, it is well known that neural representations are biased in favor of attended locations. Using concurrent eye-tracking and functional Magnetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Meenakshi Khosla , Gia H. Ngo , Keith Jamison , Amy Kuceyeski , Mert R. Sabuncu

Cognitive processing signals can be used to improve natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, it is not clear how these signals correlate with linguistic information. Bridging between human language processing and linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yuqi Ren , Deyi Xiong

Autonomous driving is a multi-task problem requiring a deep understanding of the visual environment. End-to-end autonomous systems have attracted increasing interest as a method of learning to drive without exhaustively programming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Alexander Makrigiorgos , Ali Shafti , Alex Harston , Julien Gerard , A. Aldo Faisal

When humans perform a task, such as playing a game, they selectively pay attention to certain parts of the visual input, gathering relevant information and sequentially combining it to build a representation from the sensory data. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Khimya Khetarpal , Doina Precup

Word alignment, which aims to align translationally equivalent words between source and target sentences, plays an important role in many natural language processing tasks. Current unsupervised neural alignment methods focus on inducing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Chi Chen , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

Inattentional blindness is the psychological phenomenon that causes one to miss things in plain sight. It is a consequence of the selective attention in perception that lets us remain focused on important parts of our world without…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Yujin Tang , Duong Nguyen , David Ha