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Attention mechanism has been used as an ancillary means to help RNN or CNN. However, the Transformer (Vaswani et al., 2017) recently recorded the state-of-the-art performance in machine translation with a dramatic reduction in training time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Jinbae Im , Sungzoon Cho

The nature of abstract reasoning is a matter of debate. Modern artificial neural network (ANN) models, like large language models, demonstrate impressive success when tested on abstract reasoning problems. However, it has been argued that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Tomer Barak , Yonatan Loewenstein

The recurrent neural networks (RNN) can be used to solve the sequence to sequence problem, where both the input and the output have sequential structures. Usually there are some implicit relations between the structures. However, it is hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Feng Wang , David M. J. Tax

Attention mechanisms represent a fundamental paradigm shift in neural network architectures, enabling models to selectively focus on relevant portions of input sequences through learned weighting functions. This monograph provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hasi Hays

We propose an Auto-Parsing Network (APN) to discover and exploit the input data's hidden tree structures for improving the effectiveness of the Transformer-based vision-language systems. Specifically, we impose a Probabilistic Graphical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Xu Yang , Chongyang Gao , Hanwang Zhang , Jianfei Cai

Self-attention model have shown its flexibility in parallel computation and the effectiveness on modeling both long- and short-term dependencies. However, it calculates the dependencies between representations without considering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Baosong Yang , Jian Li , Derek Wong , Lidia S. Chao , Xing Wang , Zhaopeng Tu

Self-attention networks (SANs) have drawn increasing interest due to their high parallelization in computation and flexibility in modeling dependencies. SANs can be further enhanced with multi-head attention by allowing the model to attend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Baosong Yang , Longyue Wang , Derek Wong , Lidia S. Chao , Zhaopeng Tu

Long-sequence modeling faces a fundamental trade-off between the efficiency of compressive fixed-size memory in RNN-like models and the fidelity of lossless growing memory in attention-based Transformers. Inspired by the Multi-Store Model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yunhao Fang , Weihao Yu , Shu Zhong , Qinghao Ye , Xuehan Xiong , Lai Wei

Visual attention, which assigns weights to image regions according to their relevance to a question, is considered as an indispensable part by most Visual Question Answering models. Although the questions may involve complex relations among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Chen Zhu , Yanpeng Zhao , Shuaiyi Huang , Kewei Tu , Yi Ma

Multimodal attentional networks are currently state-of-the-art models for Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks involving real images. Although attention allows to focus on the visual content relevant to the question, this simple mechanism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Remi Cadene , Hedi Ben-younes , Matthieu Cord , Nicolas Thome

Recently, end-to-end sequence-to-sequence models for speech recognition have gained significant interest in the research community. While previous architecture choices revolve around time-delay neural networks (TDNN) and long short-term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Ngoc-Quan Pham , Thai-Son Nguyen , Jan Niehues , Markus Müller , Sebastian Stüker , Alexander Waibel

Few-shot learning presents a challenge that a classifier must quickly adapt to new classes that do not appear in the training set, given only a few labeled examples of each new class. This paper proposes a position-aware relation network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Ziyang Wu , Yuwei Li , Lihua Guo , Kui Jia

While self-attention mechanism has shown promising results for many vision tasks, it only considers the current features at a time. We show that such a manner cannot take full advantage of the attention mechanism. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Xu Ma , Jingda Guo , Sihai Tang , Zhinan Qiao , Qi Chen , Qing Yang , Song Fu

Recently proposed fine-grained 3D visual grounding is an essential and challenging task, whose goal is to identify the 3D object referred by a natural language sentence from other distractive objects of the same category. Existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Dailan He , Yusheng Zhao , Junyu Luo , Tianrui Hui , Shaofei Huang , Aixi Zhang , Si Liu

Despite the significant progress made by transformer models in machine reading comprehension tasks, they still fall short in handling complex reasoning tasks due to the absence of explicit knowledge in the input sequence. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Shima Foolad , Kourosh Kiani

We consider the abstract relational reasoning task, which is commonly used as an intelligence test. Since some patterns have spatial rationales, while others are only semantic, we propose a multi-scale architecture that processes each query…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Yaniv Benny , Niv Pekar , Lior Wolf

As wireless communication systems evolve, automatic modulation recognition (AMR) plays a key role in improving spectrum efficiency, especially in cognitive radio systems. Traditional AMR methods face challenges in complex, noisy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Wangye Jiang , Haoming Yang , Xinyu Lu , Mingyuan Wang , Huimei Sun , Jingya Zhang

Emerging from the pairwise attention in conventional Transformers, there is a growing interest in sparse attention mechanisms that align more closely with localized, contextual learning in the biological brain. Existing studies such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yuwei Sun , Hideya Ochiai , Zhirong Wu , Stephen Lin , Ryota Kanai

Deep neural networks based purely on attention have been successful across several domains, relying on minimal architectural priors from the designer. In Human Action Recognition (HAR), attention mechanisms have been primarily adopted on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Vittorio Mazzia , Simone Angarano , Francesco Salvetti , Federico Angelini , Marcello Chiaberge

While attention has been an increasingly popular component in deep neural networks to both interpret and boost the performance of models, little work has examined how attention progresses to accomplish a task and whether it is reasonable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Shi Chen , Ming Jiang , Jinhui Yang , Qi Zhao