English
Related papers

Related papers: Convolutional Self-Attention Networks

200 papers

In this work, we aim to predict human eye fixation with view-free scenes based on an end-to-end deep learning architecture. Although Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have made substantial improvement on human attention prediction, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Wenguan Wang , Jianbing Shen

While self-attention mechanism has shown promising results for many vision tasks, it only considers the current features at a time. We show that such a manner cannot take full advantage of the attention mechanism. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Xu Ma , Jingda Guo , Sihai Tang , Zhinan Qiao , Qi Chen , Qing Yang , Song Fu

Understanding human language is one of the key themes of artificial intelligence. For language representation, the capacity of effectively modeling the linguistic knowledge from the detail-riddled and lengthy texts and getting rid of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Zhuosheng Zhang , Yuwei Wu , Junru Zhou , Sufeng Duan , Hai Zhao , Rui Wang

2D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have attracted significant attention for hyperspectral image super-resolution tasks. However, a key limitation is their reliance on local neighborhoods, which leads to a lack of global contextual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Usman Muhammad , Jorma Laaksonen

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

In this paper, we detail the relationship between convolutions and self-attention in natural language tasks. We show that relative position embeddings in self-attention layers are equivalent to recently-proposed dynamic lightweight…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Tyler A. Chang , Yifan Xu , Weijian Xu , Zhuowen Tu

Self-supervised learning is currently gaining a lot of attention, as it allows neural networks to learn robust representations from large quantities of unlabeled data. Additionally, multi-task learning can further improve representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Franco Manessi , Alessandro Rozza

The recent integration of attention mechanisms into segmentation networks improves their representational capabilities through a great emphasis on more informative features. However, these attention mechanisms ignore an implicit sub-task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Zilong Zhong , Zhong Qiu Lin , Rene Bidart , Xiaodan Hu , Ibrahim Ben Daya , Zhifeng Li , Wei-Shi Zheng , Jonathan Li , Alexander Wong

While convolutional neural networks have shown a tremendous impact on various computer vision tasks, they generally demonstrate limitations in explicitly modeling long-range dependencies due to the intrinsic locality of the convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Guanglei Yang , Hao Tang , Mingli Ding , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Self-attention is a method of encoding sequences of vectors by relating these vectors to each-other based on pairwise similarities. These models have recently shown promising results for modeling discrete sequences, but they are non-trivial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Matthias Sperber , Jan Niehues , Graham Neubig , Sebastian Stüker , Alex Waibel

Attention mechanisms represent a fundamental paradigm shift in neural network architectures, enabling models to selectively focus on relevant portions of input sequences through learned weighting functions. This monograph provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hasi Hays

Developments in machine learning interpretability techniques over the past decade have provided new tools to observe the image regions that are most informative for classification and localization in artificial neural networks (ANNs). Are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Thomas A. Langlois , H. Charles Zhao , Erin Grant , Ishita Dasgupta , Thomas L. Griffiths , Nori Jacoby

Transformers have recently shown superior performances on various vision tasks. The large, sometimes even global, receptive field endows Transformer models with higher representation power over their CNN counterparts. Nevertheless, simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zhuofan Xia , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Li Erran Li , Gao Huang

Attention mechanisms in neural networks have proved useful for problems in which the input and output do not have fixed dimension. Often there exist features that are locally translation invariant and would be valuable for directing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Miltiadis Allamanis , Hao Peng , Charles Sutton

Transformer-based models have emerged as a leading architecture for natural language processing, natural language generation, and image generation tasks. A fundamental element of the transformer architecture is self-attention, which allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Venmugil Elango

Recently, a large number of neural mechanisms and models have been proposed for sequence learning, of which self-attention, as exemplified by the Transformer model, and graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted much attention. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Pengfei Liu , Shuaichen Chang , Xuanjing Huang , Jian Tang , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Attention mechanisms, which enable a neural network to accurately focus on all the relevant elements of the input, have become an essential component to improve the performance of deep neural networks. There are mainly two attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Qing-Long Zhang Yu-Bin Yang

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

Encoder-decoder based Sequence to Sequence learning (S2S) has made remarkable progress in recent years. Different network architectures have been used in the encoder/decoder. Among them, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Self…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Kaitao Song , Xu Tan , Di He , Jianfeng Lu , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

Attention networks show promise for both vision and language tasks, by emphasizing relationships between constituent elements through weighting functions. Such elements could be regions in an image output by a region proposal network, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Chu Wang , Babak Samari , Vladimir Kim , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Kaleem Siddiqi