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The Transformer architecture has become increasingly popular over the past two years, owing to its impressive performance on a number of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, all Transformer computations occur at the level of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-05 David Donahue , Vladislav Lialin , Anna Rumshisky

When a language model is trained to predict natural language sequences, its prediction at each moment depends on a representation of prior context. What kind of information about the prior context can language models retrieve? We tested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Kristijan Armeni , Christopher Honey , Tal Linzen

Although the Transformer translation model (Vaswani et al., 2017) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of translation tasks, how to use document-level context to deal with discourse phenomena problematic for Transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Jiacheng Zhang , Huanbo Luan , Maosong Sun , FeiFei Zhai , Jingfang Xu , Min Zhang , Yang Liu

Transformers excel at in-context retrieval but suffer from quadratic complexity with sequence length, while State Space Models (SSMs) offer efficient linear-time processing but have limited retrieval capabilities. We investigate whether…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Georgios Pantazopoulos , Malvina Nikandrou , Ioannis Konstas , Alessandro Suglia

Transformer architectures have brought about fundamental changes to computational linguistic field, which had been dominated by recurrent neural networks for many years. Its success also implies drastic changes in cross-modal tasks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Andrew Shin , Masato Ishii , Takuya Narihira

Large Transformer models have been central to recent advances in natural language processing. The training and inference costs of these models, however, have grown rapidly and become prohibitively expensive. Here we aim to reduce the costs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 David R. So , Wojciech Mańke , Hanxiao Liu , Zihang Dai , Noam Shazeer , Quoc V. Le

Transformer-based language models have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks, yet their high inference latency poses a significant challenge for real-timeand large-scale deployment. While existing caching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Harsh Vardhan Bansal

The Transformer architecture has become the de facto standard for Large Language Models (LLMs), demonstrating remarkable capabilities in language understanding and generation. However, its application in conversational AI is fundamentally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Adam Filipek

Language models, being at the heart of many NLP problems, are always of great interest to researchers. Neural language models come with the advantage of distributed representations and long range contexts. With its particular dynamics that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Thomas Cherian , Akshay Badola , Vineet Padmanabhan

Recent breakthroughs in NLP research, such as the advent of Transformer models have indisputably contributed to major advancements in several tasks. However, few works research robustness and explainability issues of their evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Maria Lymperaiou , George Manoliadis , Orfeas Menis Mastromichalakis , Edmund G. Dervakos , Giorgos Stamou

Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance through ever-increasing parameter counts, but scaling incurs steep computational costs. To better understand LLM scaling, we study representational differences between LLMs and…

Incorporating stronger syntactic biases into neural language models (LMs) is a long-standing goal, but research in this area often focuses on modeling English text, where constituent treebanks are readily available. Extending constituent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Shunsuke Kando , Hiroshi Noji , Yusuke Miyao

LSTMs and other RNN variants have shown strong performance on character-level language modeling. These models are typically trained using truncated backpropagation through time, and it is common to assume that their success stems from their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Rami Al-Rfou , Dokook Choe , Noah Constant , Mandy Guo , Llion Jones

In the realm of neural architecture design, achieving high performance is largely reliant on the manual expertise of researchers. Despite the emergence of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) as a promising technique for automating this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yannis Y. He

Transformer is a powerful model for text understanding. However, it is inefficient due to its quadratic complexity to input sequence length. Although there are many methods on Transformer acceleration, they are still either inefficient on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Transformer architectures contribute to managing long-term dependencies for Natural Language Processing, representing one of the most recent changes in the field. These architectures are the basis of the innovative, cutting-edge Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Silvia García-Méndez , Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , María del Carmen Somoza-López

Even though BERT achieves successful performance improvements in various supervised learning tasks, applying BERT for unsupervised tasks still holds a limitation that it requires repetitive inference for computing contextual language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Joongbo Shin , Yoonhyung Lee , Seunghyun Yoon , Kyomin Jung

Text simplification (TS) aims to reduce the lexical and structural complexity of a text, while still retaining the semantic meaning. Current automatic TS techniques are limited to either lexical-level applications or manually defining a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Tong Wang , Ping Chen , Kevin Amaral , Jipeng Qiang

This paper studies a text classification algorithm based on an improved Transformer to improve the performance and efficiency of the model in text classification tasks. Aiming at the shortcomings of the traditional Transformer model in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jia Gao , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Shicheng Zhou , Hongye Zheng , Xiaoxuan Liao

Linearization has emerged as a strategy for developing efficient language models (LMs). Starting from an existing Transformer-based LM, linearization replaces the attention component with computationally efficient subquadratic \textit{token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Patrick Haller , Jonas Golde , Alan Akbik