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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

Nowadays, with the explosive growth of multimodal reviews on social media platforms, multimodal sentiment analysis has recently gained popularity because of its high relevance to these social media posts. Although most previous studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Luwei Xiao , Xingjiao Wu , Wen Wu , Jing Yang , Liang He

Human visual system can selectively attend to parts of a scene for quick perception, a biological mechanism known as Human attention. Inspired by this, recent deep learning models encode attention mechanisms to focus on the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Qiuxia Lai , Salman Khan , Yongwei Nie , Jianbing Shen , Hanqiu Sun , Ling Shao

Transformers and their attention mechanism have been revolutionary in the field of Machine Learning. While originally proposed for the language data, they quickly found their way to the image, video, graph, etc. data modalities with various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Saeed Amizadeh , Sara Abdali , Yinheng Li , Kazuhito Koishida

Attention mechanism has played critical roles in various state-of-the-art NLP models such as Transformer and BERT. It can be formulated as a ternary function that maps the input queries, keys and values into an output by using a summation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang

Attention-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models suffer from attention deficiency issues as has been observed in recent research. We propose a novel mechanism to address some of these limitations and improve the NMT attention.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Baskaran Sankaran , Haitao Mi , Yaser Al-Onaizan , Abe Ittycheriah

The spreading of attention has been proposed as a mechanism for how humans group features to segment objects. However, such a mechanism has not yet been implemented and tested in naturalistic images. Here, we leverage the feature maps from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hossein Adeli , Seoyoung Ahn , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte , Gregory Zelinsky

We propose a novel framework based on the attention mechanism to identify the sentiment of a movie review document. Previous efforts on deep neural networks with attention mechanisms focus on encoder and decoder with fixed numbers of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Fanfei Meng , Chen-Ao Wang

In this work, we propose several attention formulations for multivariate sequence data. We build on top of the recently introduced 2D-Attention and reformulate the attention learning methodology by quantifying the relevance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Kateryna Chumachenko , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Transformers have achieved remarkable success in sequence modeling and beyond but suffer from quadratic computational and memory complexities with respect to the length of the input sequence. Leveraging techniques include sparse and linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Tan Nguyen , Richard G. Baraniuk , Robert M. Kirby , Stanley J. Osher , Bao Wang

The Transformer, a breakthrough architecture in artificial intelligence, owes its success to the attention mechanism, which utilizes long-range interactions in sequential data, enabling the emergent coherence between large language models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zihan Zhou , Bo-Wei Qin , Kai Du , Wei Lin

The use of multi-modal data for deep machine learning has shown promise when compared to uni-modal approaches with fusion of multi-modal features resulting in improved performance in several applications. However, most state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Darshana Priyasad , Tharindu Fernando , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Speech emotion recognition is a challenging problem because human convey emotions in subtle and complex ways. For emotion recognition on human speech, one can either extract emotion related features from audio signals or employ speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Haiyang Xu , Hui Zhang , Kun Han , Yun Wang , Yiping Peng , Xiangang Li

Transformer models gain popularity because of their superior inference accuracy and inference throughput. However, the transformer is computation-intensive, causing a long inference time. The existing works on transformer inference…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yuan Feng , Hyeran Jeon , Filip Blagojevic , Cyril Guyot , Qing Li , Dong Li

Neural networks are growing more capable on their own, but we do not understand their neural mechanisms. Understanding these mechanisms' decision-making processes, or mechanistic interpretability, enables (1) accountability and control in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Mason Kadem , Rong Zheng

Language and vision-language models have shown impressive performance across a wide range of tasks, but their internal mechanisms remain only partly understood. In this work, we study how individual attention heads in text-generative models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Lorenzo Basile , Valentino Maiorca , Diego Doimo , Francesco Locatello , Alberto Cazzaniga

Human emotions unfold over time, and more affective computing research has to prioritize capturing this crucial component of real-world affect. Modeling dynamic emotional stimuli requires solving the twin challenges of time-series modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Desmond C. Ong , Zhengxuan Wu , Tan Zhi-Xuan , Marianne Reddan , Isabella Kahhale , Alison Mattek , Jamil Zaki

Facial expression recognition has been an active research area over the past few decades, and it is still challenging due to the high intra-class variation. Traditional approaches for this problem rely on hand-crafted features such as SIFT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Shervin Minaee , Amirali Abdolrashidi

Deep learning has been widely adopted in automatic emotion recognition and has lead to significant progress in the field. However, due to insufficient annotated emotion datasets, pre-trained models are limited in their generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Dung Nguyen , Sridha Sridharan , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Simon Denman , David Dean , Clinton Fookes

With the attention mechanism, transformers achieve significant empirical successes. Despite the intuitive understanding that transformers perform relational inference over long sequences to produce desirable representations, we lack a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yufeng Zhang , Boyi Liu , Qi Cai , Lingxiao Wang , Zhaoran Wang