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In NLP, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have benefited less than recurrent neural networks (RNNs) from attention mechanisms. We hypothesize that this is because the attention in CNNs has been mainly implemented as attentive pooling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Wenpeng Yin , Hinrich Schütze

Attention-based neural networks, such as Transformers, have become ubiquitous in numerous applications, including computer vision, natural language processing, and time-series analysis. In all kinds of attention networks, the attention maps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Yujing Wang , Yaming Yang , Zhuo Li , Jiangang Bai , Mingliang Zhang , Xiangtai Li , Jing Yu , Ce Zhang , Gao Huang , Yunhai Tong

We show how to augment any convolutional network with an attention-based global map to achieve non-local reasoning. We replace the final average pooling by an attention-based aggregation layer akin to a single transformer block, that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Hugo Touvron , Matthieu Cord , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Gabriel Synnaeve , Hervé Jégou

Recent improvements in generative adversarial visual synthesis incorporate real and fake image transformation in a self-supervised setting, leading to increased stability and perceptual fidelity. However, these approaches typically involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Neel Dey , Antong Chen , Soheil Ghafurian

The translation equivariance of convolutional layers enables convolutional neural networks to generalize well on image problems. While translation equivariance provides a powerful inductive bias for images, we often additionally desire…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-25 Marc Finzi , Samuel Stanton , Pavel Izmailov , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Group Convolutional Neural Networks (G-CNNs) constrain learned features to respect the symmetries in the selected group, and lead to better generalization when these symmetries appear in the data. If this is not the case, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 David W. Romero , Suhas Lohit

The shift from Convolutional Neural Networks to Transformers has reshaped computer vision, yet these two architectural families are typically viewed as fundamentally distinct. We argue that convolution and self-attention, despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mingi Kang , Jeová Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Despite their widespread success in various domains, Transformer networks have yet to perform well across datasets in the domain of 3D atomistic graphs such as molecules even when 3D-related inductive biases like translational invariance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yi-Lun Liao , Tess Smidt

Equivariance to symmetries has proven to be a powerful inductive bias in deep learning research. Recent works on mesh processing have concentrated on various kinds of natural symmetries, including translations, rotations, scaling, node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Sourya Basu , Jose Gallego-Posada , Francesco Viganò , James Rowbottom , Taco Cohen

The performance of neural networks has been significantly improved by increasing the number of channels in convolutional layers. However, this increase in performance comes with a higher computational cost, resulting in numerous studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Youngkyu Lee , Jongho Park , Chang-Ock Lee

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been the standard for image classification tasks for a long time, but more recently attention-based mechanisms have gained traction. This project aims to compare traditional CNNs with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Nikhil Kapila , Julian Glattki , Tejas Rathi

Convolutional neural networks have been extremely successful in the image recognition domain because they ensure equivariance to translations. There have been many recent attempts to generalize this framework to other domains, including…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-13 Risi Kondor , Shubhendu Trivedi

Supervised learning with deep models has tremendous potential for applications in materials science. Recently, graph neural networks have been used in this context, drawing direct inspiration from models for molecules. However, materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-18 Sékou-Oumar Kaba , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Convolutional neural networks revolutionized computer vision and natrual language processing. Their efficiency, as compared to fully connected neural networks, has its origin in the architecture, where convolutions reflect the translation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Patrick Krüger , Hanno Gottschalk

Convolutional networks have been the paradigm of choice in many computer vision applications. The convolution operation however has a significant weakness in that it only operates on a local neighborhood, thus missing global information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Irwan Bello , Barret Zoph , Ashish Vaswani , Jonathon Shlens , Quoc V. Le

Safe and efficient crowd navigation for mobile robot is a crucial yet challenging task. Previous work has shown the power of deep reinforcement learning frameworks to train efficient policies. However, their performance deteriorates when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Yuying Chen , Congcong Liu , Ming Liu , Bertram E. Shi

The understanding of where humans look in a scene is a problem of great interest in visual perception and computer vision. When eye-tracking devices are not a viable option, models of human attention can be used to predict fixations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Dario Zanca , Marco Gori

Convolutional neural networks have enabled major progresses in addressing pixel-level prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation, depth estimation, surface normal prediction and so on, benefiting from their powerful capabilities in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Guanglei Yang , Paolo Rota , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Dan Xu , Mingli Ding , Elisa Ricci

Group theory has been used in machine learning to provide a theoretically grounded approach for incorporating known symmetry transformations in tasks from robotics to protein modeling. In these applications, equivariant neural networks use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Lucas Laird , Circe Hsu , Asilata Bapat , Robin Walters

Many real-world problems can be represented as graph-based learning problems. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for learning spatial and attentional convolution neural networks on arbitrary graphs. Different from previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Hao Peng , Jianxin Li , Qiran Gong , Senzhang Wang , Yuanxing Ning , Philip S. Yu