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With the promising progress of deep neural networks, layer aggregation has been used to fuse information across layers in various fields, such as computer vision and machine translation. However, most of the previous methods combine layers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Zi-Yi Dou , Zhaopeng Tu , Xing Wang , Longyue Wang , Shuming Shi , Tong Zhang

Multi-head attention advances neural machine translation by working out multiple versions of attention in different subspaces, but the neglect of semantic overlapping between subspaces increases the difficulty of translation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Shuhao Gu , Yang Feng

Numerous studies on text-to-image (T2I) generative models have utilized cross-attention maps to boost application performance and interpret model behavior. However, the distinct characteristics of attention maps from different attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jungwon Park , Jungmin Ko , Dongnam Byun , Wonjong Rhee

Attention layers are widely used in natural language processing (NLP) and are beginning to influence computer vision architectures. Training very large transformer models allowed significant improvement in both fields, but once trained,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Andreas Loukas , Martin Jaggi

Multi-head attention has each of the attention heads collect salient information from different parts of an input sequence, making it a powerful mechanism for sequence modeling. Multilingual and multi-domain learning are common scenarios…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Hongyu Gong , Yun Tang , Juan Pino , Xian Li

In a crowd forecasting system, aggregation is an algorithm that returns aggregated probabilities for each question based on the probabilities provided per question by each individual in the crowd. Various aggregation methods have been…

Applications · Statistics 2022-03-18 Yuzhong Huang , Andres Abeliuk , Fred Morstatter , Pavel Atanasov , Aram Galstyan

Transformers have become the dominant architecture across a wide range of domains, largely due to the effectiveness of multi-head attention in capturing diverse representation subspaces. However, standard multi-head attention activates all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Bilal Faye , Abdoulaye Mbaye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

Multi-head attention powers Transformer networks, the primary deep learning architecture behind the success of large language models (LLMs). Yet, the theoretical advantages of multi-head versus single-head attention, beyond mere parallel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde

The training and generalization dynamics of the Transformer's core mechanism, namely the Attention mechanism, remain under-explored. Besides, existing analyses primarily focus on single-head attention. Inspired by the demonstrated benefits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Puneesh Deora , Rouzbeh Ghaderi , Hossein Taheri , Christos Thrampoulidis

The neural attention mechanism plays an important role in many natural language processing applications. In particular, the use of multi-head attention extends single-head attention by allowing a model to jointly attend information from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Bang An , Jie Lyu , Zhenyi Wang , Chunyuan Li , Changwei Hu , Fei Tan , Ruiyi Zhang , Yifan Hu , Changyou Chen

We propose a novel framework for image clustering that incorporates joint representation learning and clustering. Our method consists of two heads that share the same backbone network - a "representation learning" head and a "clustering"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Kien Do , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

Attention is a powerful and ubiquitous mechanism for allowing neural models to focus on particular salient pieces of information by taking their weighted average when making predictions. In particular, multi-headed attention is a driving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Paul Michel , Omer Levy , Graham Neubig

A key functionality of emerging connected autonomous systems such as smart transportation systems, smart cities, and the industrial Internet-of-Things, is the ability to process and learn from data collected at different physical locations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Konstantinos Gatsis

Transformer-based models have been achieving state-of-the-art results in several fields of Natural Language Processing. However, its direct application to speech tasks is not trivial. The nature of this sequences carries problems such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Gerard Sant , Gerard I. Gállego , Belen Alastruey , Marta R. Costa-Jussà

An approach to distributed machine learning is to train models on local datasets and aggregate these models into a single, stronger model. A popular instance of this form of parallelization is federated learning, where the nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Linara Adilova , Julia Rosenzweig , Michael Kamp

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) networks have been proposed as an efficient way to scale up model capacity and implement conditional computing. However, the study of MoE components mostly focused on the feedforward layer in Transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Xiaofeng Zhang , Yikang Shen , Zeyu Huang , Jie Zhou , Wenge Rong , Zhang Xiong

Multi-layer models with multiple attention heads per layer provide superior translation quality compared to simpler and shallower models, but determining what source context is most relevant to each target word is more challenging as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Thomas Zenkel , Joern Wuebker , John DeNero

The Transformer translation model is based on the multi-head attention mechanism, which can be parallelized easily. The multi-head attention network performs the scaled dot-product attention function in parallel, empowering the model by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Hongfei Xu , Qiuhui Liu , Josef van Genabith , Deyi Xiong

In the domain of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), collaborative perception has emerged as a promising approach to overcome the limitations of individual perception by enabling multiple agents to exchange information, thus enhancing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Ahmed N. Ahmed , Siegfried Mercelis , Ali Anwar

We give efficient "collaboration protocols" through which two parties, who observe different features about the same instances, can interact to arrive at predictions that are more accurate than either could have obtained on their own. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Natalie Collina , Ira Globus-Harris , Surbhi Goel , Varun Gupta , Aaron Roth , Mirah Shi
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