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Recent advancements in attention mechanisms have replaced recurrent neural networks and its variants for machine translation tasks. Transformer using attention mechanism solely achieved state-of-the-art results in sequence modeling. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Prakhar Thapak , Prodip Hore

We consider the problem of Visual Question Answering (VQA). Given an image and a free-form, open-ended, question, expressed in natural language, the goal of VQA system is to provide accurate answer to this question with respect to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Tanzila Rahman , Shih-Han Chou , Leonid Sigal , Giuseppe Carenini

Typical person re-identification (ReID) methods usually describe each pedestrian with a single feature vector and match them in a task-specific metric space. However, the methods based on a single feature vector are not sufficient enough to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jianlou Si , Honggang Zhang , Chun-Guang Li , Jason Kuen , Xiangfei Kong , Alex C. Kot , Gang Wang

A straightforward approach to context-aware neural machine translation consists in feeding the standard encoder-decoder architecture with a window of consecutive sentences, formed by the current sentence and a number of sentences from its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Lorenzo Lupo , Marco Dinarelli , Laurent Besacier

Transformers excel at sequence modeling but face quadratic complexity, while linear attention offers improved efficiency but often compromises recall accuracy over long contexts. In this work, we introduce Native Hybrid Attention (NHA), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jusen Du , Jiaxi Hu , Tao Zhang , Weigao Sun , Yu Cheng

Neural network models recently proposed for question answering (QA) primarily focus on capturing the passage-question relation. However, they have minimal capability to link relevant facts distributed across multiple sentences which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Souvik Kundu , Hwee Tou Ng

Information diffusion prediction aims at predicting the target users in the information diffusion path on social networks. Prior works mainly focus on the observed structure or sequence of cascades, trying to predict to whom this cascade…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Xiaowen Wang , Lanjun Wang , Yuting Su , Yongdong Zhang , An-An Liu

Machine comprehension of text is an important problem in natural language processing. A recently released dataset, the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), offers a large number of real questions and their answers created by humans…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Shuohang Wang , Jing Jiang

The attention mechanism is one of the most important priori knowledge to enhance convolutional neural networks. Most attention mechanisms are bound to the convolutional layer and use local or global contextual information to recalibrate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yu Xue , Ziming Yuan

Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently show distracted attention due to irrelevant information in the input, which severely impairs their long-context capabilities. Inspired by recent studies on the effectiveness of retrieval heads in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Weihao Liu , Ning Wu , Shiping Yang , Wenbiao Ding , Shining Liang , Ming Gong , Dongmei Zhang

The quadratic computational complexity of standard attention mechanisms presents a severe scalability bottleneck for LLMs in long-context scenarios. While hybrid attention mechanisms combining Full Attention (FA) and Sparse Attention (SA)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Quantong Qiu , Zhiyi Hong , Yi Yang , Haitian Wang , Kebin Liu , Qingqing Dang , Juntao Li , Min Zhang

2D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have attracted significant attention for hyperspectral image super-resolution tasks. However, a key limitation is their reliance on local neighborhoods, which leads to a lack of global contextual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Usman Muhammad , Jorma Laaksonen

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

This paper advances a novel architectural schema anchored upon the Transformer paradigm and innovatively amalgamates the K-means categorization algorithm to augment the contextual apprehension capabilities of the schema. The transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yuwei Zhang , Junming Huang , Sitong Liu , Zexi Chen , Zizheng Li

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

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 mechanism is a significant part of Transformer models. It helps extract features from embedded vectors by adding global information and its expressivity has been proved to be powerful. Nevertheless, the quadratic complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hanwen Liu , Yixuan Ma , Shi Jin , Yuguang Wang

We unify different broad-coverage semantic parsing tasks under a transduction paradigm, and propose an attention-based neural framework that incrementally builds a meaning representation via a sequence of semantic relations. By leveraging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Sheng Zhang , Xutai Ma , Kevin Duh , Benjamin Van Durme

In order to successfully perform tasks specified by natural language instructions, an artificial agent operating in a visual world needs to map words, concepts, and actions from the instruction to visual elements in its environment. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Soumik Dasgupta , Badri N. Patro , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Text classification assigns text to predefined categories. Traditional methods struggle with complex structures and long-range dependencies. Deep learning with recurrent neural networks and Transformer models has improved feature extraction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Dong Xu , Mengyao Liao , Zhenglin Lai , Xueliang Li , Junkai Ji