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Vision Transformer(ViT) is one of the most widely used models in the computer vision field with its great performance on various tasks. In order to fully utilize the ViT-based architecture in various applications, proper visualization…

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We propose a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) with attention mechanism to classify psychological stress from self-conducted interview transcriptions. We apply distant supervision by automatically labeling tweets based on their hashtag content,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Genta Indra Winata , Onno Pepijn Kampman , Pascale Fung

Recent studies on interpretability of attention distributions have led to notions of faithful and plausible explanations for a model's predictions. Attention distributions can be considered a faithful explanation if a higher attention…

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Attention plays a key role in the improvement of sequence-to-sequence-based document summarization models. To obtain a powerful attention helping with reproducing the most salient information and avoiding repetitions, we augment the vanilla…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Min Gui , Junfeng Tian , Rui Wang , Zhenglu Yang

Self-attention, an architectural motif designed to model long-range interactions in sequential data, has driven numerous recent breakthroughs in natural language processing and beyond. This work provides a theoretical analysis of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Benjamin L. Edelman , Surbhi Goel , Sham Kakade , Cyril Zhang

Automatically describing video content with natural language has been attracting much attention in CV and NLP communities. Most existing methods predict one word at a time, and by feeding the last generated word back as input at the next…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Huanhou Xiao , Jinglun Shi

The great success of Transformer-based models benefits from the powerful multi-head self-attention mechanism, which learns token dependencies and encodes contextual information from the input. Prior work strives to attribute model decisions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yaru Hao , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Ke Xu

We consider the problem of predicting edges in a graph from node attributes in an e-commerce setting. Specifically, given nodes labelled with search query text, we want to predict links to related queries that share products. Experiments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Matthew Dippel , Adam Kiezun , Tanay Mehta , Ravi Sundaram , Srikanth Thirumalai , Akshar Varma

We present a generative modeling approach based on the variational inference framework for likelihood-free simulation-based inference. The method leverages latent variables within variational autoencoders to efficiently estimate complex…

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Understanding not only where drivers look but also why their attention shifts is essential for interpretable human-AI collaboration in autonomous driving. Driver attention is not purely perceptual but semantically structured. Thus,…

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Attention mechanism has gained huge popularity due to its effectiveness in achieving high accuracy in different domains. But attention is opportunistic and is not justified by the content or usability of the content. Transformer like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Chiranjib Sur

Transformer-based speech recognition models have achieved great success due to the self-attention (SA) mechanism that utilizes every frame in the feature extraction process. Especially, SA heads in lower layers capture various phonetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Kyuhong Shim , Wonyong Sung

This paper presents a novel design of attention model for text-independent speaker verification. The model takes a pair of input utterances and generates an utterance-level embedding to represent speaker-specific characteristics in each…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Jingyu Li , Tan Lee

Neural attention (NA) has become a key component of sequence-to-sequence models that yield state-of-the-art performance in as hard tasks as abstractive document summarization (ADS) and video captioning (VC). NA mechanisms perform inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Kyriacos Tolias , Ioannis Kourouklides , Sotirios Chatzis

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) plays a key role in advancing human-computer interaction. Attention mechanisms have become the dominant approach for modeling emotional speech due to their ability to capture long-range dependencies and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Marc Casals-Salvador , Federico Costa , Rodolfo Zevallos , Javier Hernando

Large language models (LLMs) now support extremely long context windows, but the quadratic complexity of vanilla attention results in significantly long Time-to-First-Token (TTFT) latency. Existing approaches to address this complexity…

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Diffusion models achieve remarkable fidelity in image synthesis, yet precise control over their outputs for targeted editing remains challenging. A key step toward controllability is to identify interpretable directions in the model's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Tharun Anand , Mohammad Hassan Vali , Arno Solin , Green Rosh , BH Pawan Prasad

Most neural machine translation models only rely on pairs of parallel sentences, assuming syntactic information is automatically learned by an attention mechanism. In this work, we investigate different approaches to incorporate syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Emanuele Bugliarello , Naoaki Okazaki

Transformer-based language models significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in many linguistic tasks. As this revolution continues, the ability to explain model predictions has become a major area of interest for the NLP community. In…

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