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Neural networks are surprisingly good at interpolating and perform remarkably well when the training set examples resemble those in the test set. However, they are often unable to extrapolate patterns beyond the seen data, even when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Yann Dubois , Gautier Dagan , Dieuwke Hupkes , Elia Bruni

Introducing attentional mechanism in neural network is a powerful concept, and has achieved impressive results in many natural language processing tasks. However, most of the existing models impose attentional distribution on a flat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-25 PengFei Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) are the state-of-the-art for natural language tasks. Recent work has attempted to decode, by reverse engineering the role of linear layers, the internal mechanisms by which LLMs arrive at their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Mansi Sakarvadia , Arham Khan , Aswathy Ajith , Daniel Grzenda , Nathaniel Hudson , André Bauer , Kyle Chard , Ian Foster

Object-based attention is a key component of the visual system, relevant for perception, learning, and memory. Neurons tuned to features of attended objects tend to be more active than those associated with non-attended objects. There is a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-09 Jordan Lei , Ari S. Benjamin , Konrad P. Kording

Dot-product attention has wide applications in computer vision and natural language processing. However, its memory and computational costs grow quadratically with the input size. Such growth prohibits its application on high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Zhuoran Shen , Mingyuan Zhang , Haiyu Zhao , Shuai Yi , Hongsheng Li

Machine comprehension is a representative task of natural language understanding. Typically, we are given context paragraph and the objective is to answer a question that depends on the context. Such a problem requires to model the complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Zia Hasan , Sebastian Fischer

Inference with Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) on long sequences is both costly and slow due to the quadratic complexity of the self-attention mechanism. We introduce Star Attention, a two-phase block-sparse approximation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Shantanu Acharya , Fei Jia , Boris Ginsburg

The state of the art in learning meaningful semantic representations of words is the Transformer model and its attention mechanisms. Simply put, the attention mechanisms learn to attend to specific parts of the input dispensing recurrence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Dongsheng Wang , Casper Hansen , Lucas Chaves Lima , Christian Hansen , Maria Maistro , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Christina Lioma

Visual attention is a mechanism closely intertwined with vision and memory. Top-down information influences visual processing through attention. We designed a neural network model inspired by aspects of human visual attention. This model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ruoyang Hu , Robert A. Jacobs

Recently, the attention mechanism plays a key role to achieve high performance for Neural Machine Translation models. However, as it computes a score function for the encoder states in all positions at each decoding step, the attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Raphael Shu , Hideki Nakayama

Intelligence necessitates memory. Without memory, humans fail to perform various nontrivial tasks such as reading novels, playing games or solving maths. As the ultimate goal of machine learning is to derive intelligent systems that learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Hung Le

The ability to abstract, count, and use System~2 reasoning are well-known manifestations of intelligence and understanding. In this paper, we argue, using the example of the ``Look and Say" puzzle, that although deep neural networks can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Wlodek W. Zadrozny

Multimedia or spoken content presents more attractive information than plain text content, but the former is more difficult to display on a screen and be selected by a user. As a result, accessing large collections of the former is much…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Wei Fang , Jui-Yang Hsu , Hung-yi Lee , Lin-Shan Lee

We present a novel attention-based mechanism to learn enhanced point features for point cloud processing tasks, e.g., classification and segmentation. Unlike prior works, which were trained to optimize the weights of a pre-selected set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Liqiang Lin , Pengdi Huang , Chi-Wing Fu , Kai Xu , Hao Zhang , Hui Huang

Conventional attention-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) conducts dynamic alignment in generating the target sentence. By repeatedly reading the representation of source sentence, which keeps fixed after generated by the encoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Fandong Meng , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Qun Liu

Transformers have had tremendous impact for several sequence related tasks, largely due to their ability to retrieve from any part of the sequence via softmax based dot-product attention. This mechanism plays a crucial role in Transformer's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Sai Surya Duvvuri , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Transformers are widely used in natural language processing, where they consistently achieve state-of-the-art performance. This is mainly due to their attention-based architecture, which allows them to model rich linguistic relations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Nikolaos Mylonas , Ioannis Mollas , Grigorios Tsoumakas

We investigate the use of extended context in attention-based neural machine translation. We base our experiments on translated movie subtitles and discuss the effect of increasing the segments beyond single translation units. We study the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Jörg Tiedemann , Yves Scherrer

Attention is fundamental to cognition, yet it remains a challenge to understand attention in tasks approaching real-world complexity. Here, we approached this problem by modeling gaze patterns of monkeys playing Pac-Man. We first show a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-12 Zhongqiao Lin , Yunwei Li , Tianming Yang

In the past few years, attention mechanisms have become an indispensable component of end-to-end neural machine translation models. However, previous attention models always refer to some source words when predicting a target word, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Junhui Li , Muhua Zhu