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The handwritten text recognition problem is widely studied by the researchers of computer vision community due to its scope of improvement and applicability to daily lives, It is a sub-domain of pattern recognition. Due to advancement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Lalita Kumari , Sukhdeep Singh , VVS Rathore , Anuj Sharma

Transformer-based architectures have become the prevailing backbone of large language models. However, the quadratic time and memory complexity of self-attention remains a fundamental obstacle to efficient long-context modeling. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yutao Sun , Zhenyu Li , Yike Zhang , Tengyu Pan , Bowen Dong , Yuyi Guo , Jianyong Wang

Attention mechanism is one of the most successful techniques in deep learning based Natural Language Processing (NLP). The transformer network architecture is completely based on attention mechanisms, and it outperforms sequence-to-sequence…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Sevinj Yolchuyeva , Géza Németh , Bálint Gyires-Tóth

This paper presents a quantitative fine-grained manual evaluation approach to comparing the performance of different machine translation (MT) systems. We build upon the well-established Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM) error taxonomy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Filip Klubička , Antonio Toral , Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena

Neural machine translation has shown very promising results lately. Most NMT models follow the encoder-decoder framework. To make encoder-decoder models more flexible, attention mechanism was introduced to machine translation and also other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Shi Feng , Shujie Liu , Mu Li , Ming Zhou

Transformer-based pre-trained models have gained much advance in recent years, becoming one of the most important backbones in natural language processing. Recent work shows that the attention mechanism inside Transformer may not be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yile Wang , Linyi Yang , Zhiyang Teng , Ming Zhou , Yue Zhang

Natural languages are believed to be (mildly) context-sensitive. Despite underpinning remarkably capable large language models, transformers are unable to model many context-free language tasks. In an attempt to address this limitation in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jiaoda Li , Jennifer C. White , Mrinmaya Sachan , Ryan Cotterell

The state of the art in machine translation (MT) is governed by neural approaches, which typically provide superior translation accuracy over statistical approaches. However, on the closely related task of word alignment, traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Sarthak Garg , Stephan Peitz , Udhyakumar Nallasamy , Matthias Paulik

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have long been an architecture of interest for computational models of human sentence processing. The recently introduced Transformer architecture outperforms RNNs on many natural language processing tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Danny Merkx , Stefan L. Frank

The transformer architecture is central to the success of modern Large Language Models (LLMs), in part due to its surprising ability to perform a wide range of tasks - including mathematical reasoning, memorization, and retrieval - using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yihe Dong , Lorenzo Noci , Mikhail Khodak , Mufan Li

Attention-based end-to-end text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) is superior to conventional statistical methods in many ways. Transformer-based TTS is one of such successful implementations. While Transformer TTS models the speech frame sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Rui Liu , Berrak Sisman , Haizhou Li

Phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) systems have previously been used for the task of grammatical error correction (GEC) to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy. The superiority of SMT systems comes from their ability to learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Shamil Chollampatt , Kaveh Taghipour , Hwee Tou Ng

The Transformer-based models with the multi-head self-attention mechanism are widely used in natural language processing, and provide state-of-the-art results. While the pre-trained language backbones are shown to implicitly capture certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Zhengyuan Liu , Nancy F. Chen

Nearest neighbor machine translation augments the Autoregressive Translation~(AT) with $k$-nearest-neighbor retrieval, by comparing the similarity between the token-level context representations of the target tokens in the query and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Rui Lv , Junliang Guo , Rui Wang , Xu Tan , Qi Liu , Tao Qin

This paper introduces a convolutional recurrent network with attention for speech command recognition. Attention models are powerful tools to improve performance on natural language, image captioning and speech tasks. The proposed model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-28 Douglas Coimbra de Andrade , Sabato Leo , Martin Loesener Da Silva Viana , Christoph Bernkopf

In this paper, we enhance the attention-based neural machine translation (NMT) by adding explicit coverage embedding models to alleviate issues of repeating and dropping translations in NMT. For each source word, our model starts with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Haitao Mi , Baskaran Sankaran , Zhiguo Wang , Abe Ittycheriah

Multi-head attention is a driving force behind state-of-the-art transformers, which achieve remarkable performance across a variety of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision tasks. It has been observed that for many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Tam Nguyen , Tan M. Nguyen , Dung D. Le , Duy Khuong Nguyen , Viet-Anh Tran , Richard G. Baraniuk , Nhat Ho , Stanley J. Osher

In machine translation, rare words continue to be a problem for the dominant encoder-decoder architecture, especially in low-resource and out-of-domain translation settings. Human translators solve this problem with monolingual or bilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Kenneth J. Sible , David Chiang

Recent advances in speech large language models (SLMs) have improved speech recognition and translation in general domains, but accurately generating domain-specific terms or neologisms remains challenging. To address this, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yanfan Du , Jun Zhang , Bin Wang , Jin Qiu , Lu Huang , Yuan Ge , Xiaoqian Liu , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

The transformer is the most popular neural architecture for language modeling. The cornerstone of the transformer is its global attention mechanism, which lets the model aggregate information from all preceding tokens before generating the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jiaoda Li , Ryan Cotterell