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Improving the efficiency of state-of-the-art methods in semantic segmentation requires overcoming the increasing computational cost as well as issues such as fusing semantic information from global and local contexts. Based on the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Serdar Erisen

Recurrent-attention hybrids aim to combine the efficiency of recurrence with the expressivity of attention, but existing approaches typically apply attention uniformly across all positions, even when the recurrent state alone is sufficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Haoran Zheng , Chen Shani

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), by integrating non-parametric knowledge from external knowledge bases into models, has emerged as a promising approach to enhancing response accuracy while mitigating factual errors and hallucinations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Qitao Qin , Yucong Luo , Yihang Lu , Zhibo Chu , Xiaoman Liu , Xianwei Meng

Recurrent neural networks can learn complex transduction problems that require maintaining and actively exploiting a memory of their inputs. Such models traditionally consider memory and input-output functionalities indissolubly entangled.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Davide Bacciu , Antonio Carta , Alessandro Sperduti

Self-attention architectures have emerged as a recent advancement for improving the performance of vision tasks. Manual determination of the architecture for self-attention networks relies on the experience of experts and cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yuan Zhou , Haiyang Wang , Shuwei Huo , Boyu Wang

In this paper, we introduce the Reinforced Mnemonic Reader for machine reading comprehension tasks, which enhances previous attentive readers in two aspects. First, a reattention mechanism is proposed to refine current attentions by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Minghao Hu , Yuxing Peng , Zhen Huang , Xipeng Qiu , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

The self-attention mechanism, which equips with a strong capability of modeling long-range dependencies, is one of the extensively used techniques in the sequential recommendation field. However, many recent studies represent that current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Xinyu Du , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Jianfeng Qu , Fuzhen Zhuang , Guanfeng Liu , Victor S. Sheng

Recurrent neural nets are widely used for predicting temporal data. Their inherent deep feedforward structure allows learning complex sequential patterns. It is believed that top-down feedback might be an important missing ingredient which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Kamil M Rocki

Recurrent connectivity in the visual cortex is believed to aid object recognition for challenging conditions such as occlusion. Here we investigate if and how artificial neural networks also benefit from recurrence. We compare architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Markus Roland Ernst , Jochen Triesch , Thomas Burwick

Transformer models have achieved state-of-the-art results across a diverse range of domains. However, concern over the cost of training the attention mechanism to learn complex dependencies between distant inputs continues to grow. In…

Deep learning-based neural receivers offer promising physical-layer solutions for next-generation wireless systems. We propose an axial self-attention transformer neural receiver that achieves state-of-the-art Block Error Rate (BLER)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 SaiKrishna Saketh Yellapragada , Atchutaram K. Kocharlakota , Mário Costa , Esa Ollila , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., carefully-crafted inputs that mislead classification at test time. Recent defenses have been shown to improve adversarial robustness by detecting anomalous deviations from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Francesco Crecchi , Marco Melis , Angelo Sotgiu , Davide Bacciu , Battista Biggio

Feedforward convolutional neural networks are the prevalent model of core object recognition. For challenging conditions, such as occlusion, neuroscientists believe that the recurrent connectivity in the visual cortex aids object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Markus Roland Ernst , Jochen Triesch , Thomas Burwick

Recently, deep convolutional neural network (CNN) have been widely used in image restoration and obtained great success. However, most of existing methods are limited to local receptive field and equal treatment of different types of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Yucheng Hang , Qingmin Liao , Wenming Yang , Yupeng Chen , Jie Zhou

We propose a simple neural architecture for natural language inference. Our approach uses attention to decompose the problem into subproblems that can be solved separately, thus making it trivially parallelizable. On the Stanford Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Ankur P. Parikh , Oscar Täckström , Dipanjan Das , Jakob Uszkoreit

Recently, self-attention models such as Transformers have given competitive results compared to recurrent neural network systems in speech recognition. The key factor for the outstanding performance of self-attention models is their ability…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-29 Shucong Zhang , Erfan Loweimi , Peter Bell , Steve Renals

Recent Super-Resolution~(SR) methods mainly adopt Transformers for their strong long-range modeling capability and exceptional representational capacity. However, most SR Transformers rely heavily on relative positional bias~(RPB), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Dongheon Lee , Seokju Yun , Jaegyun Im , Youngmin Ro

Modern large-scale recommender systems employ multi-stage ranking funnel (Retrieval, Pre-ranking, Ranking) to balance engagement and computational constraints (latency, CPU). However, the initial retrieval stage, often relying on efficient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Amit Jaspal , Qian Dang , Ajantha Ramineni

This paper addresses the challenge of creating a neural architecture for very long sequences that requires constant time for processing new information at each time step. Our approach, Associative Recurrent Memory Transformer (ARMT), is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Ivan Rodkin , Yuri Kuratov , Aydar Bulatov , Mikhail Burtsev

With the development of feed-forward models, the default model for sequence modeling has gradually evolved to replace recurrent networks. Many powerful feed-forward models based on convolutional networks and attention mechanism were…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Hongyan Hao , Yan Wang , Siqiao Xue , Yudi Xia , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen