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Attention mechanisms have raised significant interest in the research community, since they promise significant improvements in the performance of neural network architectures. However, in any specific problem, we still lack a principled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Rafael Pedro , Arlindo L. Oliveira

Automatic facial expression recognition is an important research area in the emotion recognition and computer vision. Applications can be found in several domains such as medical treatment, driver fatigue surveillance, sociable robotics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Sevegni Odilon Clement Allognon , Alessandro L. Koerich , Alceu de S. Britto

The emotion detection technology to enhance human decision-making is an important research issue for real-world applications, but real-life emotion datasets are relatively rare and small. The experiments conducted in this paper use the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Théo Deschamps-Berger , Lori Lamel , Laurence Devillers

Transformer models typically calculate attention matrices using dot products, which have limitations when capturing nonlinear relationships between embedding vectors. We propose Neural Attention, a technique that replaces dot products with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Andrew DiGiugno , Ausif Mahmood

Natural language processing has greatly benefited from the introduction of the attention mechanism. However, standard attention models are of limited interpretability for tasks that involve a series of inference steps. We describe an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Martin Tutek , Jan Šnajder

Transformer models are revolutionizing machine learning, but their inner workings remain mysterious. In this work, we present a new visualization technique designed to help researchers understand the self-attention mechanism in transformers…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Catherine Yeh , Yida Chen , Aoyu Wu , Cynthia Chen , Fernanda Viégas , Martin Wattenberg

Whereas deep neural networks were first mostly used for classification tasks, they are rapidly expanding in the realm of structured output problems, where the observed target is composed of multiple random variables that have a rich joint…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kyunghyun Cho , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

This paper addresses the problem of modeling textual conversations and detecting emotions. Our proposed model makes use of 1) deep transfer learning rather than the classical shallow methods of word embedding; 2) self-attention mechanisms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Waleed Ragheb , Jérôme Azé , Sandra Bringay , Maximilien Servajean

The great success of Transformer-based models benefits from the powerful multi-head self-attention mechanism, which learns token dependencies and encodes contextual information from the input. Prior work strives to attribute model decisions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yaru Hao , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Ke Xu

Music has the power to evoke intense emotional experiences and regulate the mood of an individual. With the advent of online streaming services, research in music recommendation services has seen tremendous progress. Modern methods…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Kunal Vaswani , Yudhik Agrawal , Vinoo Alluri

Attention-based beamformers have recently been shown to be effective for multi-channel speech recognition. However, they are less capable at capturing local information. In this work, we propose a 2D Conv-Attention module which combines…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Bhargav Pulugundla , Yang Gao , Brian King , Gokce Keskin , Harish Mallidi , Minhua Wu , Jasha Droppo , Roland Maas

Applications of an efficient emotion recognition system can be found in several domains such as medicine, driver fatigue surveillance, social robotics, and human-computer interaction. Appraising human emotional states, behaviors, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Savinay Nagendra , Prapti Panigrahi

In this paper we explore deep learning models with memory component or attention mechanism for question answering task. We combine and compare three models, Neural Machine Translation, Neural Turing Machine, and Memory Networks for a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Yang Yu , Wei Zhang , Chung-Wei Hang , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou

In this paper, we present a process to investigate the effects of transfer learning for automatic facial expression recognition from emotions to pain. To this end, we first train a VGG16 convolutional neural network to automatically discern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Pooja Prajod , Dominik Schiller , Tobias Huber , Elisabeth André

In order to exploit representations of time-series signals, such as physiological signals, it is essential that these representations capture relevant information from the whole signal. In this work, we propose to use a Transformer-based…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-06 Juan Vazquez-Rodriguez , Grégoire Lefebvre , Julien Cumin , James L. Crowley

To improve the robustness of transformer neural networks used for temporal-dynamics prediction of chaotic systems, we propose a novel attention mechanism called easy attention which we demonstrate in time-series reconstruction and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Marcial Sanchis-Agudo , Yuning Wang , Roger Arnau , Luca Guastoni , Jasmin Lim , Karthik Duraisamy , Ricardo Vinuesa

Learned self-attention functions in state-of-the-art NLP models often correlate with human attention. We investigate whether self-attention in large-scale pre-trained language models is as predictive of human eye fixation patterns during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Stephanie Brandl , Oliver Eberle , Jonas Pilot , Anders Søgaard

In recent years, deep learning has achieved innovative advancements in various fields, including the analysis of human emotions and behaviors. Initiatives such as the Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Seongjae Min , Junseok Yang , Sangjun Lim , Junyong Lee , Sangwon Lee , Sejoon Lim

Attention has long been proposed by psychologists as important for effectively dealing with the enormous sensory stimulus available in the neocortex. Inspired by the visual attention models in computational neuroscience and the need of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Yichuan Tang , Nitish Srivastava , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Multimodal affective computing, learning to recognize and interpret human affects and subjective information from multiple data sources, is still challenging because: (i) it is hard to extract informative features to represent human affects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Yue Gu , Kangning Yang , Shiyu Fu , Shuhong Chen , Xinyu Li , Ivan Marsic