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Neural models that independently project questions and answers into a shared embedding space allow for efficient continuous space retrieval from large corpora. Independently computing embeddings for questions and answers results in late…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Yinfei Yang , Ning Jin , Kuo Lin , Mandy Guo , Daniel Cer

Transformer attention architectures, similar to those developed for natural language processing, have recently proved efficient also in vision, either in conjunction with or as a replacement for convolutional layers. Typically, visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Rufin VanRullen , Andrea Alamia

Attention networks have proven to be an effective approach for embedding categorical inference within a deep neural network. However, for many tasks we may want to model richer structural dependencies without abandoning end-to-end training.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Yoon Kim , Carl Denton , Luong Hoang , Alexander M. Rush

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with attention mechanisms have obtained state-of-the-art results for many sequence processing tasks. Most of these models use a simple form of encoder with attention that looks over the entire sequence and…

We study the problem of generating abstractive summaries for opinionated text. We propose an attention-based neural network model that is able to absorb information from multiple text units to construct informative, concise, and fluent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Lu Wang , Wang Ling

Question answering has emerged as an intuitive way of querying structured data sources, and has attracted significant advancements over the years. In this article, we provide an overview over these recent advancements, focusing on neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Nilesh Chakraborty , Denis Lukovnikov , Gaurav Maheshwari , Priyansh Trivedi , Jens Lehmann , Asja Fischer

Multi-head, key-value attention is the backbone of the widely successful Transformer model and its variants. This attention mechanism uses multiple parallel key-value attention blocks (called heads), each performing two fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Sarthak Mittal , Sharath Chandra Raparthy , Irina Rish , Yoshua Bengio , Guillaume Lajoie

Conventional attention-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) conducts dynamic alignment in generating the target sentence. By repeatedly reading the representation of source sentence, which keeps fixed after generated by the encoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Fandong Meng , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Qun Liu

Attention networks show promise for both vision and language tasks, by emphasizing relationships between constituent elements through weighting functions. Such elements could be regions in an image output by a region proposal network, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Chu Wang , Babak Samari , Vladimir Kim , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Kaleem Siddiqi

Video Question Answering is a challenging problem in visual information retrieval, which provides the answer to the referenced video content according to the question. However, the existing visual question answering approaches mainly tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Yunan Ye , Zhou Zhao , Yimeng Li , Long Chen , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang

Learning an effective attention mechanism for multimodal data is important in many vision-and-language tasks that require a synergic understanding of both the visual and textual contents. Existing state-of-the-art approaches use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Zhou Yu , Yuhao Cui , Jun Yu , Dacheng Tao , Qi Tian

We propose augmenting deep neural networks with an attention mechanism for the visual object detection task. As perceiving a scene, humans have the capability of multiple fixation points, each attended to scene content at different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Kota Hara , Ming-Yu Liu , Oncel Tuzel , Amir-massoud Farahmand

This study proposes a text classification algorithm based on large language models, aiming to address the limitations of traditional methods in capturing long-range dependencies, understanding contextual semantics, and handling class…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Ning Lyu , Yuxi Wang , Feng Chen , Qingyuan Zhang

While most approaches to automatically recognizing entailment relations have used classifiers employing hand engineered features derived from complex natural language processing pipelines, in practice their performance has been only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Tim Rocktäschel , Edward Grefenstette , Karl Moritz Hermann , Tomáš Kočiský , Phil Blunsom

Understanding open-domain text is one of the primary challenges in natural language processing (NLP). Machine comprehension benchmarks evaluate the system's ability to understand text based on the text content only. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Wenpeng Yin , Sebastian Ebert , Hinrich Schütze

Attention mechanisms have become a foundational component in diffusion models, significantly influencing their capacity across a wide range of generative and discriminative tasks. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Litao Hua , Fan Liu , Jie Su , Xingyu Miao , Zizhou Ouyang , Zeyu Wang , Runze Hu , Zhenyu Wen , Bing Zhai , Yang Long , Haoran Duan , Yuan Zhou

We introduced a {\it working memory} augmented adaptive controller in our recent work. The controller uses attention to read from and write to the working memory. Attention allows the controller to read specific information that is relevant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Deepan Muthirayan , Scott Nivison , Pramod P. Khargonekar

Recurrent neural network architectures combining with attention mechanism, or neural attention model, have shown promising performance recently for the tasks including speech recognition, image caption generation, visual question answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Sheng-syun Shen , Hung-yi Lee

Visual Question and Answering (VQA) problems are attracting increasing interest from multiple research disciplines. Solving VQA problems requires techniques from both computer vision for understanding the visual contents of a presented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Ilija Ilievski , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

Many recent deep learning-based solutions have widely adopted the attention-based mechanism in various tasks of the NLP discipline. However, the inherent characteristics of deep learning models and the flexibility of the attention mechanism…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Dairui Liu , Derek Greene , Ruihai Dong