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Convolutions operate only locally, thus failing to model global interactions. Self-attention is, however, able to learn representations that capture long-range dependencies in sequences. We propose a network architecture for audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Nathanaël Carraz Rakotonirina

Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) have shown excellent results on many visual classification tasks. With the exception of ImageNet, these datasets are carefully crafted such that objects are well-aligned at similar scales. Naturally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-17 Angjoo Kanazawa , Abhishek Sharma , David Jacobs

We introduce Region-Aware Deformable Convolution (RAD-Conv), a new convolutional operator that enhances neural networks' ability to adapt to complex image structures. Unlike traditional deformable convolutions, which are limited to fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Abolfazl Saheban Maleki , Maryam Imani

Neural networks based on convolutional operations have achieved remarkable results in the field of deep learning, but there are two inherent flaws in standard convolutional operations. On the one hand, the convolution operation is confined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Xin Zhang , Yingze Song , Tingting Song , Degang Yang , Yichen Ye , Jie Zhou , Liming Zhang

Transformer-based architectures have become the prevailing backbone of large language models. However, the quadratic time and memory complexity of self-attention remains a fundamental obstacle to efficient long-context modeling. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yutao Sun , Zhenyu Li , Yike Zhang , Tengyu Pan , Bowen Dong , Yuyi Guo , Jianyong Wang

Over the past decade, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks have been widely adopted for medical image segmentation and shown to achieve adequate performance. However, due to the inherent inductive biases present in the convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Poojan Oza , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Vishal M. Patel

Despite the effectiveness of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image classification, our understanding of the relationship between shape of convolution kernels and learned representations is limited. In this work, we explore and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani

Recent research has explored the memorization capacity of multi-head attention, but these findings are constrained by unrealistic limitations on the context size. We present a novel proof for language-based Transformers that extends the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Léo Dana , Muni Sreenivas Pydi , Yann Chevaleyre

Recently Transformers have provided state-of-the-art performance in sparse matching, crucial to realize high-performance 3D vision applications. Yet, these Transformers lack efficiency due to the quadratic computational complexity of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Suwichaya Suwanwimolkul , Satoshi Komorita

We introduce a new local sparse attention layer that preserves two-dimensional geometry and locality. We show that by just replacing the dense attention layer of SAGAN with our construction, we obtain very significant FID, Inception score…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Giannis Daras , Augustus Odena , Han Zhang , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Spatial optimization is often overlooked in many computer vision tasks. Filters should be able to recognize the features of an object regardless of where it is in the image. Similarity search is a crucial task where spatial features decide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Md. Farhadul Islam , Md. Tanzim Reza , Meem Arafat Manab , Mohammad Rakibul Hasan Mahin , Sarah Zabeen , Jannatun Noor

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) model long-range dependencies by deeply stacking convolution operations with small window sizes, which makes the optimizations difficult. This paper presents region-based non-local (RNL) operations as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Guoxi Huang , Adrian G. Bors

In this paper, we introduce a novel spatial attention module that can be easily integrated to any convolutional network. This module guides the model to pay attention to the most discriminative part of an image. This enables the model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Hai-Vy Nguyen , Fabrice Gamboa , Sixin Zhang , Reda Chhaibi , Serge Gratton , Thierry Giaccone

Transformer-based architectures are the most used architectures in many deep learning fields like Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision or Speech processing. It may encourage the direct use of Transformers in the constrained tasks,…

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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

One of recent trends [30, 31, 14] in network architec- ture design is stacking small filters (e.g., 1x1 or 3x3) in the entire network because the stacked small filters is more ef- ficient than a large kernel, given the same computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Chao Peng , Xiangyu Zhang , Gang Yu , Guiming Luo , Jian Sun

Kernel size selection in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is a critical but often overlooked design decision that affects receptive field, feature extraction, computational cost, and model accuracy. This paper proposes the Best Kernel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Shreyas Rajeev , B Sathish Babu

Prostate cancer biopsy benefits from accurate fusion of transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) and magnetic resonance (MR) images. In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proved powerful in extracting image features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Xinrui Song , Hengtao Guo , Xuanang Xu , Hanqing Chao , Sheng Xu , Baris Turkbey , Bradford J. Wood , Ge Wang , Pingkun Yan

Transformers have improved the state-of-the-art across numerous tasks in sequence modeling. Besides the quadratic computational and memory complexity w.r.t the sequence length, the self-attention mechanism only processes information at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Yao Zhang , Yunpu Ma , Thomas Seidl , Volker Tresp

Local features and contextual dependencies are crucial for 3D point cloud analysis. Many works have been devoted to designing better local convolutional kernels that exploit the contextual dependencies. However, current point convolutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Yong He , Hongshan Yu , Zhengeng Yang , Wei Sun , Mingtao Feng , Ajmal Mian