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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

In this paper, we propose a novel deep multi-level attention model to address inverse visual question answering. The proposed model generates regional visual and semantic features at the object level and then enhances them with the answer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Yaser Alwattar , Yuhong Guo

With the rapid growth of knowledge bases (KBs), question answering over knowledge base, a.k.a. KBQA has drawn huge attention in recent years. Most of the existing KBQA methods follow so called encoder-compare framework. They map the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Yingqi Qu , Jie Liu , Liangyi Kang , Qinfeng Shi , Dan Ye

Knowing which words have been attended to in previous time steps while generating a translation is a rich source of information for predicting what words will be attended to in the future. We improve upon the attention model of Bahdanau et…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Zichao Yang , Zhiting Hu , Yuntian Deng , Chris Dyer , Alex Smola

The performance of relation extraction models has increased considerably with the rise of neural networks. However, a key issue of neural relation extraction is robustness: the models do not scale well to long sentences with multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Heike Adel , Jannik Strötgen

Sequential self-attention models usually rely on additive positional embeddings, which inject positional information into item representations at the input. In the absence of positional signals, the attention block is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Timur Nabiev , Evgeny Frolov

Neural Machine Translation has lately gained a lot of "attention" with the advent of more and more sophisticated but drastically improved models. Attention mechanism has proved to be a boon in this direction by providing weights to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Rakesh Bal , Sayan Sinha

A variety of attention mechanisms have been studied to improve the performance of various computer vision tasks. However, the prior methods overlooked the significance of retaining the information on both channel and spatial aspects to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Yichao Liu , Zongru Shao , Nico Hoffmann

We propose a novel algorithm for visual question answering based on a recurrent deep neural network, where every module in the network corresponds to a complete answering unit with attention mechanism by itself. The network is optimized by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Hyeonwoo Noh , Bohyung Han

The last several years have seen intensive interest in exploring neural-network-based models for machine comprehension (MC) and question answering (QA). In this paper, we approach the problems by closely modelling questions in a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Junbei Zhang , Xiaodan Zhu , Qian Chen , Lirong Dai , Si Wei , Hui Jiang

In recommender systems, models mostly use a combination of embedding layers and multilayer feedforward neural networks. The high-dimensional sparse original features are downscaled in the embedding layer and then fed into the fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Mohan Hasama , Jing Li

Attention is a very popular and effective mechanism in artificial neural network-based sequence-to-sequence models. In this survey paper, a comprehensive review of the different attention models used in developing automatic speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Priyabrata Karmakar , Shyh Wei Teng , Guojun Lu

Attention is an increasingly popular mechanism used in a wide range of neural architectures. The mechanism itself has been realized in a variety of formats. However, because of the fast-paced advances in this domain, a systematic overview…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Andrea Galassi , Marco Lippi , Paolo Torroni

The research explores the utilization of a deep learning model employing an attention mechanism in medical text mining. It targets the challenge of analyzing unstructured text information within medical data. This research seeks to enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Lingxi Xiao , Muqing Li , Yinqiu Feng , Meiqi Wang , Ziyi Zhu , Zexi Chen

Object-based attention is a key component of the visual system, relevant for perception, learning, and memory. Neurons tuned to features of attended objects tend to be more active than those associated with non-attended objects. There is a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-09 Jordan Lei , Ari S. Benjamin , Konrad P. Kording

Rapid progress has been made towards question answering (QA) systems that can extract answers from text. Existing neural approaches make use of expensive bi-directional attention mechanisms or score all possible answer spans, limiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Jonathan Raiman , John Miller

The attention mechanism is the computational core of modern Transformer architectures, but its quadratic complexity in the input sequence length is the bottleneck for large-scale inference. This has motivated a rapidly growing body of work…

The attention mechanism has been widely used in deep neural networks as a model component. By now, it has become a critical building block in many state-of-the-art natural language models. Despite its great success established empirically,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Haoye Lu , Yongyi Mao , Amiya Nayak

The attention model has become a standard component in neural machine translation (NMT) and it guides translation process by selectively focusing on parts of the source sentence when predicting each target word. However, we find that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Long Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

We propose a machine reading comprehension model based on the compare-aggregate framework with two-staged attention that achieves state-of-the-art results on the MovieQA question answering dataset. To investigate the limitations of our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Matthias Blohm , Glorianna Jagfeld , Ekta Sood , Xiang Yu , Ngoc Thang Vu