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Recently, non-recurrent architectures (convolutional, self-attentional) have outperformed RNNs in neural machine translation. CNNs and self-attentional networks can connect distant words via shorter network paths than RNNs, and it has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Gongbo Tang , Mathias Müller , Annette Rios , Rico Sennrich

Neural networks with attention have proven effective for many natural language processing tasks. In this paper, we develop attention mechanisms for uncertainty detection. In particular, we generalize standardly used attention mechanisms by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Heike Adel , Hinrich Schütze

Scaling depth is a key driver for large language models (LLMs). Yet, as LLMs become deeper, they often suffer from signal degradation: informative features formed in shallow layers are gradually diluted by repeated residual updates, making…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lianghui Zhu , Yuxin Fang , Bencheng Liao , Shijie Wang , Tianheng Cheng , Zilong Huang , Chen Chen , Lai Wei , Yutao Zeng , Ya Wang , Yi Lin , Yu Li , Xinggang Wang

The behavior of the network and its stability are governed by both dynamics of individual nodes as well as their topological interconnections. Attention mechanism as an integral part of neural network models was initially designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Nooshin Bahador , Milad Lankarany

Sequence alignment is a fundamental process in computational biology which identifies regions of similarity in biological sequences. With the exponential growth in the volume of data in bioinformatics databases, the time, processing power,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Nasrin Akbari , Mehdi Modarressi , Alireza Khadem

In this manuscript, we study the learning of deep attention neural networks, defined as the composition of multiple self-attention layers, with tied and low-rank weights. We first establish a mapping of such models to sequence multi-index…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Emanuele Troiani , Hugo Cui , Yatin Dandi , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

Transformer-based models have demonstrated exceptional performance across diverse domains, becoming the state-of-the-art solution for addressing sequential machine learning problems. Even though we have a general understanding of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-12 Ángel Poc-López , Miguel Aguilera

Attention layers are widely used in natural language processing (NLP) and are beginning to influence computer vision architectures. Training very large transformer models allowed significant improvement in both fields, but once trained,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Andreas Loukas , Martin Jaggi

We show that training a multi-headed self-attention-based deep network to predict deleted, information-dense 2-8 Hz speech modulations over a 1.5-second section of a speech utterance is an effective way to make machines learn to extract…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Samik Sadhu , Hynek Hermansky

Objective: This paper develops a theoretical framework explaining when and why AI explanations enhance versus impair human decision-making. Background: Transparency is advocated as universally beneficial for human-AI interaction, yet…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ancuta Margondai , Mustapha Mouloua

The dense depth estimation of a 3D scene has numerous applications, mainly in robotics and surveillance. LiDAR and radar sensors are the hardware solution for real-time depth estimation, but these sensors produce sparse depth maps and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Alwyn Mathew , Aditya Prakash Patra , Jimson Mathew

Self-attention architectures have emerged as a recent advancement for improving the performance of vision tasks. Manual determination of the architecture for self-attention networks relies on the experience of experts and cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yuan Zhou , Haiyang Wang , Shuwei Huo , Boyu Wang

Estimation of 3D gaze is highly relevant to multiple fields, including but not limited to interactive systems, specialized human-computer interfaces, and behavioral research. Although recently deep learning methods have boosted the accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Gabriel Lefundes , Luciano Oliveira

Transformers have revolutionized the field of machine learning. In particular, they can be used to solve complex algorithmic problems, including graph-based tasks. In such algorithmic tasks a key question is what is the minimal size of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Gilad Yehudai , Clayton Sanford , Maya Bechler-Speicher , Orr Fischer , Ran Gilad-Bachrach , Amir Globerson

Current research has found that some deep neural networks exhibit strong hierarchical self-similarity in feature representation or parameter distribution. However, aside from preliminary studies on how the power-law distribution of weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jingyi Ding , Chengwen Qi , Hongfei Wang , Jianshe Wu , Licheng Jiao , Yuwei Guo , Jian Gao

Self-supervised learning has shown very promising results for monocular depth estimation. Scene structure and local details both are significant clues for high-quality depth estimation. Recent works suffer from the lack of explicit modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jiaxing Yan , Hong Zhao , Penghui Bu , YuSheng Jin

Recent work has shown that self-attention can serve as a basic building block for image recognition models. We explore variations of self-attention and assess their effectiveness for image recognition. We consider two forms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Hengshuang Zhao , Jiaya Jia , Vladlen Koltun

Recovering the scene depth from a single image is an ill-posed problem that requires additional priors, often referred to as monocular depth cues, to disambiguate different 3D interpretations. In recent works, those priors have been learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Lam Huynh , Phong Nguyen-Ha , Jiri Matas , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkila

As large language models (LLMs) and visual language models (VLMs) grow in scale and application, attention mechanisms have become a central computational bottleneck due to their high memory and time complexity. While many efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhengyu Tian , Anantha Padmanaban Krishna Kumar , Hemant Krishnakumar , Reza Rawassizadeh

We address the problem of depth and ego-motion estimation from image sequences. Recent advances in the domain propose to train a deep learning model for both tasks using image reconstruction in a self-supervised manner. We revise the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Assem Sadek , Boris Chidlovskii