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Attention matrices are fundamental to transformer research, supporting a broad range of applications including interpretability, visualization, manipulation, and distillation. Yet, most existing analyses focus on individual attention heads…

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Multi-head attention layers, as used in the Transformer neural sequence model, are a powerful alternative to RNNs for moving information across and between sequences. While training these layers is generally fast and simple, due to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Noam Shazeer

With the development of the self-attention mechanism, the Transformer model has demonstrated its outstanding performance in the computer vision domain. However, the massive computation brought from the full attention mechanism became a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Hai Lan , Xihao Wang , Xian Wei

Transformers are built upon multi-head scaled dot-product attention and positional encoding, which aim to learn the feature representations and token dependencies. In this work, we focus on enhancing the distinctive representation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Litao Yu , Jian Zhang

Transformer-based models have been achieving state-of-the-art results in several fields of Natural Language Processing. However, its direct application to speech tasks is not trivial. The nature of this sequences carries problems such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Gerard Sant , Gerard I. Gállego , Belen Alastruey , Marta R. Costa-Jussà

Decoding brain cognitive states from neuroimaging signals is an important topic in neuroscience. In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been recruited for multiple brain state decoding and achieved good performance. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Zhoufan Jiang , Yanming Wang , ChenWei Shi , Yueyang Wu , Rongjie Hu , Shishuo Chen , Sheng Hu , Xiaoxiao Wang , Bensheng Qiu

The dominant neural machine translation models are based on the encoder-decoder structure, and many of them rely on an unconstrained receptive field over source and target sequences. In this paper we study a new architecture that breaks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-17 José A. R. Fonollosa , Noe Casas , Marta R. Costa-jussà

Recent work has questioned the importance of the Transformer's multi-headed attention for achieving high translation quality. We push further in this direction by developing a "hard-coded" attention variant without any learned parameters.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Weiqiu You , Simeng Sun , Mohit Iyyer

This paper introduces a novel attention mechanism, called dual attention, which is both efficient and effective. The dual attention mechanism consists of two parallel components: local attention generated by Convolutional Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zhengkai Jiang , Liang Liu , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Mingang Chen , Chengjie Wang

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

Medical image segmentation remains particularly challenging for complex and low-contrast anatomical structures. In this paper, we introduce the U-Transformer network, which combines a U-shaped architecture for image segmentation with self-…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Olivier Petit , Nicolas Thome , Clément Rambour , Luc Soler

Since the Transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 there has been many attempts to bring the self-attention paradigm in the field of computer vision. In this paper we propose a novel self-attention module that can be easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Roberto Pecoraro , Valerio Basile , Viviana Bono , Sara Gallo

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

We introduce a Multi-modal Neural Machine Translation model in which a doubly-attentive decoder naturally incorporates spatial visual features obtained using pre-trained convolutional neural networks, bridging the gap between image…

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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…

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This work introduces Cross-Attentive Modulation (CAM) tokens, which are tokens whose initial value is learned, gather information through cross-attention, and modulate the nodes and edges accordingly. These tokens are meant to improve the…

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Multi-head attention advances neural machine translation by working out multiple versions of attention in different subspaces, but the neglect of semantic overlapping between subspaces increases the difficulty of translation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Shuhao Gu , Yang Feng

Transformer plays a central role in many fundamental deep learning models, e.g., the ViT in computer vision and the BERT and GPT in natural language processing, whose effectiveness is mainly attributed to its multi-head attention (MHA)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shen Yuan , Hongteng Xu

Transformer architecture has emerged to be successful in a number of natural language processing tasks. However, its applications to medical vision remain largely unexplored. In this study, we present UTNet, a simple yet powerful hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yunhe Gao , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

Attention-based Encoder-Decoder has the effective architecture for neural machine translation (NMT), which typically relies on recurrent neural networks (RNN) to build the blocks that will be lately called by attentive reader during the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Hao Xiong , Zhongjun He , Xiaoguang Hu , Hua Wu