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Neural networks have achieved success in a wide array of perceptual tasks but often fail at tasks involving both perception and higher-level reasoning. On these more challenging tasks, bespoke approaches (such as modular symbolic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 David Ding , Felix Hill , Adam Santoro , Malcolm Reynolds , Matt Botvinick

Channel and spatial attention mechanism has proven to provide an evident performance boost of deep convolution neural networks (CNNs). Most existing methods focus on one or run them parallel (series), neglecting the collaboration between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Zizhang Wu , Man Wang , Weiwei Sun , Yuchen Li , Tianhao Xu , Fan Wang , Keke Huang

Attention mechanism in sequence-to-sequence models is designed to model the alignments between acoustic features and output tokens in speech recognition. However, attention weights produced by models trained end to end do not always…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Gene-Ping Yang , Hao Tang

Current data-driven methodologies for point cloud matching demand extensive training time and computational resources, presenting significant challenges for model deployment and application. In the point cloud matching task, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Alessandro Riva , Alessandro Raganato , Simone Melzi

In state-of-the-art deep neural networks, both feature normalization and feature attention have become ubiquitous. % with significant performance improvement shown in a vast amount of tasks. They are usually studied as separate modules,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Xilai Li , Wei Sun , Tianfu Wu

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

Attention is typically used to select informative sub-phrases that are used for prediction. This paper investigates the novel use of attention as a form of feature augmentation, i.e, casted attention. We propose Multi-Cast Attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Yi Tay , Luu Anh Tuan , Siu Cheung Hui

Attention networks have proven to be an effective approach for embedding categorical inference within a deep neural network. However, for many tasks we may want to model richer structural dependencies without abandoning end-to-end training.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Yoon Kim , Carl Denton , Luong Hoang , Alexander M. Rush

Factorization Machines (FMs) are a supervised learning approach that enhances the linear regression model by incorporating the second-order feature interactions. Despite effectiveness, FM can be hindered by its modelling of all feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Jun Xiao , Hao Ye , Xiangnan He , Hanwang Zhang , Fei Wu , Tat-Seng Chua

Learning to capture long-range relations is fundamental to image/video recognition. Existing CNN models generally rely on increasing depth to model such relations which is highly inefficient. In this work, we propose the "double attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Yunpeng Chen , Yannis Kalantidis , Jianshu Li , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

To enhance the generalization performance of Multi-Task Networks (MTN) in Face Attribute Recognition (FAR), it is crucial to share relevant information across multiple related prediction tasks effectively. Traditional MTN methods create…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Gong Gao , Zekai Wang , Xianhui Liu , Weidong Zhao

Scene graph generation refers to the task of automatically mapping an image into a semantic structural graph, which requires correctly labeling each extracted object and their interaction relationships. Despite the recent success in object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Mengshi Qi , Weijian Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Yunhong Wang , Jiebo Luo

Although group convolutional networks are able to learn powerful representations based on symmetry patterns, they lack explicit means to learn meaningful relationships among them (e.g., relative positions and poses). In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 David W. Romero , Erik J. Bekkers , Jakub M. Tomczak , Mark Hoogendoorn

Recently, many plug-and-play self-attention modules are proposed to enhance the model generalization by exploiting the internal information of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Previous works lay an emphasis on the design of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Zhongzhan Huang , Senwei Liang , Mingfu Liang , Wei He , Haizhao Yang

Identifying robust and accurate correspondences across images is a fundamental problem in computer vision that enables various downstream tasks. Recent semi-dense matching methods emphasize the effectiveness of fusing relevant cross-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Hongkai Chen , Zixin Luo , Yurun Tian , Xuyang Bai , Ziyu Wang , Lei Zhou , Mingmin Zhen , Tian Fang , David McKinnon , Yanghai Tsin , Long Quan

Attention layers -- which map a sequence of inputs to a sequence of outputs -- are core building blocks of the Transformer architecture which has achieved significant breakthroughs in modern artificial intelligence. This paper presents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Hengyu Fu , Tianyu Guo , Yu Bai , Song Mei

Neural attention, especially the self-attention made popular by the Transformer, has become the workhorse of state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models. Very recent work suggests that the self-attention in the Transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Zhengxuan Wu , Thanh-Son Nguyen , Desmond C. Ong

Although numerous recent tracking approaches have made tremendous advances in the last decade, achieving high-performance visual tracking remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end network model to learn reinforced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Peng Gao , Qiquan Zhang , Fei Wang , Liyi Xiao , Hamido Fujita , Yan Zhang

Few-shot learning aims to correctly recognize query samples from unseen classes given a limited number of support samples, often by relying on global embeddings of images. In this paper, we propose to equip the backbone network with an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Jie Hong , Pengfei Fang , Weihao Li , Tong Zhang , Christian Simon , Mehrtash Harandi , Lars Petersson

This paper presents an experimental study on deep speaker embedding with an attention mechanism that has been found to be a powerful representation learning technique in speaker recognition. In this framework, an attention model works as a…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Qiongqiong Wang , Koji Okabe , Kong Aik Lee , Hitoshi Yamamoto , Takafumi Koshinaka