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Despite the improvements in perception accuracies brought about via deep learning, developing systems combining accurate visual perception with the ability to reason over the visual percepts remains extremely challenging. A particular…

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In this study, we introduce \textbf{AttendSeg}, a low-precision, highly compact deep neural network tailored for on-device semantic segmentation. AttendSeg possesses a self-attention network architecture comprising of light-weight attention…

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This paper proposes a new approach to Machine Learning (ML) that focuses on unsupervised continuous context-dependent learning of complex patterns. Although the proposal is partly inspired by some of the current knowledge about the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Valentin Puente Varona

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) deliver impressive performance but their black-box nature limits deployment in high-stakes domains requiring transparency. We introduce Compositional Function Networks (CFNs), a novel framework that builds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Fang Li

Encoder-decoder networks with attention have proven to be a powerful way to solve many sequence-to-sequence tasks. In these networks, attention aligns encoder and decoder states and is often used for visualizing network behavior. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Kyle Aitken , Vinay V Ramasesh , Yuan Cao , Niru Maheswaranathan

We propose a multi-explanation graph attention network (MEGAN). Unlike existing graph explainability methods, our network can produce node and edge attributional explanations along multiple channels, the number of which is independent of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jonas Teufel , Luca Torresi , Patrick Reiser , Pascal Friederich

We propose a principle for exploring context in machine learning models. Starting with a simple assumption that each observation may or may not depend on its context, a conditional probability distribution is decomposed into two parts:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Yun Zeng

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models have achieved significant success in recent times. Despite the success of VQA models, they are mostly black-box models providing no reasoning about the predicted answer, thus raising questions for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Nihar Bendre , Kevin Desai , Peyman Najafirad

Machine learning solutions for pattern classification problems are nowadays widely deployed in society and industry. However, the lack of transparency and accountability of most accurate models often hinders their safe use. Thus, there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Gonzalo Nápoles , Yamisleydi Salgueiro , Isel Grau , Maikel Leon Espinosa

We propose a novel high-performance and interpretable canonical deep tabular data learning architecture, TabNet. TabNet uses sequential attention to choose which features to reason from at each decision step, enabling interpretability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Sercan O. Arik , Tomas Pfister

Audio classification is considered as a challenging problem in pattern recognition. Recently, many algorithms have been proposed using deep neural networks. In this paper, we introduce a new attention-based neural network architecture…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-18 Haoye Lu , Haolong Zhang , Amit Nayak

State of the art algorithms for many pattern recognition problems rely on deep network models. Training these models requires a large labeled dataset and considerable computational resources. Also, it is difficult to understand the working…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Heather Riley , Mohan Sridharan

In this paper, we address referring expression comprehension: localizing an image region described by a natural language expression. While most recent work treats expressions as a single unit, we propose to decompose them into three modular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Licheng Yu , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Jimei Yang , Xin Lu , Mohit Bansal , Tamara L. Berg

In science and engineering, intelligent processing of complex signals such as images, sound or language is often performed by a parameterized hierarchy of nonlinear processing layers, sometimes biologically inspired. Hierarchical systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán , Weiran Wang

When we deploy machine learning models in high-stakes medical settings, we must ensure these models make accurate predictions that are consistent with known medical science. Inherently interpretable networks address this need by explaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Alina Jade Barnett , Fides Regina Schwartz , Chaofan Tao , Chaofan Chen , Yinhao Ren , Joseph Y. Lo , Cynthia Rudin

Concept-Based Models (CBMs) are a class of deep learning models that provide interpretability by explaining predictions through high-level concepts. These models first predict concepts and then use them to perform a downstream task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 David Debot , Pietro Barbiero , Gabriele Dominici , Giuseppe Marra

Advancements in artificial intelligence for molecular science are necessitating a paradigm shift from purely data-driven predictions to knowledge-guided computational reasoning. Existing molecular models are predominantly proprietary,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Pengfei Liu , Shuang Ge , Jun Tao , Zhixiang Ren

Modern learning algorithms excel at producing accurate but complex models of the data. However, deploying such models in the real-world requires extra care: we must ensure their reliability, robustness, and absence of undesired biases. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Maruan Al-Shedivat , Avinava Dubey , Eric P. Xing

We propose a novel perspective of the attention mechanism by reinventing it as a memory architecture for neural networks, namely Neural Attention Memory (NAM). NAM is a memory structure that is both readable and writable via differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Hyoungwook Nam , Seung Byum Seo

In this paper we propose to augment a modern neural-network architecture with an attention model inspired by human perception. Specifically, we adversarially train and analyze a neural model incorporating a human inspired, visual attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Daniel Zoran , Mike Chrzanowski , Po-Sen Huang , Sven Gowal , Alex Mott , Pushmeet Kohl