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Transformer architectures have proven to learn useful representations for protein classification and generation tasks. However, these representations present challenges in interpretability. In this work, we demonstrate a set of methods for…

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Attention mechanisms are widely used to dramatically improve deep learning model performance in various fields. However, their general ability to improve the performance of physiological signal deep learning model is immature. In this…

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A major goal of neuroscience is to understand brain computations during visual processing in naturalistic settings. A dominant approach is to use image-computable deep neural networks trained with different task objectives as a basis for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-06 Hossein Adeli , Sun Minni , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Robot navigation with deep reinforcement learning (RL) achieves higher performance and performs well under complex environment. Meanwhile, the interpretation of the decision-making of deep RL models becomes a critical problem for more…

Retentive Network (RetNet) represents a significant advancement in neural network architecture, offering an efficient alternative to the Transformer. While Transformers rely on self-attention to model dependencies, they suffer from high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Haiqi Yang , Zhiyuan Li , Yi Chang , Yuan Wu

In this paper we present the design and evaluation of an end-to-end trainable, deep neural network with a visual attention mechanism for memorability estimation in still images. We analyze the suitability of transfer learning of deep models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Jiri Fajtl , Vasileios Argyriou , Dorothy Monekosso , Paolo Remagnino

Deep neural models (e.g. Transformer) naturally learn spurious features, which create a ``shortcut'' between the labels and inputs, thus impairing the generalization and robustness. This paper advances the self-attention mechanism to its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Hongqiu Wu , Ruixue Ding , Hai Zhao , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Min Zhang

Vehicle taillight recognition is an important application for automated driving, especially for intent prediction of ado vehicles and trajectory planning of the ego vehicle. In this work, we propose an end-to-end deep learning framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Kuan-Hui Lee , Takaaki Tagawa , Jia-En M. Pan , Adrien Gaidon , Bertrand Douillard

In recent years, channel attention mechanism has been widely investigated due to its great potential in improving the performance of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many vision tasks. However, in most of the existing methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Yue Zhao , Junzhou Chen , Zirui Zhang , Ronghui Zhang

The computational principles underlying attention allocation in complex goal-directed tasks remain elusive. Goal-directed reading, i.e., reading a passage to answer a question in mind, is a common real-world task that strongly engages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Jiajie Zou , Yuran Zhang , Jialu Li , Xing Tian , Nai Ding

Attention mechanisms in deep neural networks have achieved excellent performance on sequence-prediction tasks. Here, we show that these recently-proposed attention-based mechanisms---in particular, the Transformer with its parallelizable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Zhengxuan Wu , Xiyu Zhang , Tan Zhi-Xuan , Jamil Zaki , Desmond C. Ong

Self-attention has emerged as a core component of modern neural architectures, yet its theoretical underpinnings remain elusive. In this paper, we study self-attention through the lens of interacting entities, ranging from agents in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Muhammed Ustaomeroglu , Guannan Qu

Attention mechanism has demonstrated great potential in fine-grained visual recognition tasks. In this paper, we present a counterfactual attention learning method to learn more effective attention based on causal inference. Unlike most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yongming Rao , Guangyi Chen , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Visual attention mechanisms have proven to be integrally important constituent components of many modern deep neural architectures. They provide an efficient and effective way to utilize visual information selectively, which has shown to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Siddhesh Khandelwal , Leonid Sigal

Although deep convolutional neural networks achieve state-of-the-art performance across nearly all image classification tasks, their decisions are difficult to interpret. One approach that offers some level of interpretability by design is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Simon Kornblith , Quoc V. Le

Decoding brain cognitive states from neuroimaging signals is an important topic in neuroscience. In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been recruited for multiple brain state decoding and achieved good performance. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Zhoufan Jiang , Yanming Wang , ChenWei Shi , Yueyang Wu , Rongjie Hu , Shishuo Chen , Sheng Hu , Xiaoxiao Wang , Bensheng Qiu

The key to a Transformer model is the self-attention mechanism, which allows the model to analyze an entire sequence in a computationally efficient manner. Recent work has suggested the possibility that general attention mechanisms used by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Thomas Dowdell , Hongyu Zhang

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

While neural networks with attention mechanisms have achieved superior performance on many natural language processing tasks, it remains unclear to which extent learned attention resembles human visual attention. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Ekta Sood , Simon Tannert , Diego Frassinelli , Andreas Bulling , Ngoc Thang Vu

In the physical design of integrated circuits, global and detailed routing are critical stages involving the determination of the interconnected paths of each net on a circuit while satisfying the design constraints. Existing actual routers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Haiguang Liao , Qingyi Dong , Xuliang Dong , Wentai Zhang , Wangyang Zhang , Weiyi Qi , Elias Fallon , Levent Burak Kara