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Transformers have achieved extraordinary success in modern machine learning due to their excellent ability to handle sequential data, especially in next-token prediction (NTP) tasks. However, the theoretical understanding of their…

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Self-adaptive large language models (LLMs) aim to solve the challenges posed by traditional fine-tuning methods, which are often computationally intensive and static in their ability to handle diverse tasks. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Qi Sun , Edoardo Cetin , Yujin Tang

With the advancement of Large Language Model (LLM) for natural language processing, this paper presents an intriguing finding: a frozen pre-trained LLM layer can process visual tokens for medical image segmentation tasks. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Fenghe Tang , Wenxin Ma , Zhiyang He , Xiaodong Tao , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Transformers are two popular neural architectures used for natural language processing tasks. Theoretical results show that both are Turing-complete and can represent any context-free language (CFL).In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Hui Shi , Sicun Gao , Yuandong Tian , Xinyun Chen , Jishen Zhao

We propose a technique for learning representations of parser states in transition-based dependency parsers. Our primary innovation is a new control structure for sequence-to-sequence neural networks---the stack LSTM. Like the conventional…

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This paper presents a new artificial neuron model capable of learning its receptive field in the topological domain of inputs. The model provides adaptive and differentiable local connectivity (plasticity) applicable to any domain. It…

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Current Transformer-based natural language understanding (NLU) models heavily rely on dataset biases, while failing to handle real-world out-of-distribution (OOD) instances. Many methods have been proposed to deal with this issue, but they…

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Transformer models have emerged as fundamental tools across various scientific and engineering disciplines, owing to their outstanding performance in diverse applications. Despite this empirical success, the theoretical foundations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhen Qin , Jinxin Zhou , Jiachen Jiang , Zhihui Zhu

Recent work has shown that convolutional networks can be substantially deeper, more accurate, and efficient to train if they contain shorter connections between layers close to the input and those close to the output. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Gao Huang , Zhuang Liu , Geoff Pleiss , Laurens van der Maaten , Kilian Q. Weinberger

With the proliferation of mobile devices and the Internet of Things, deep learning models are increasingly deployed on devices with limited computing resources and memory, and are exposed to the threat of adversarial noise. Learning deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xian Wei , Yanhui Huang , Yangyu Xu , Mingsong Chen , Hai Lan , Yuanxiang Li , Zhongfeng Wang , Xuan Tang

Designing better deep networks and better reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are both important for deep RL. This work focuses on the former. Previous methods build the network with several modules like CNN, LSTM and Attention. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Hangyu Mao , Rui Zhao , Hao Chen , Jianye Hao , Yiqun Chen , Dong Li , Junge Zhang , Zhen Xiao

Large language models (LLMs) face inherent performance bottlenecks under parameter constraints, particularly in processing critical tokens that demand complex reasoning. Empirical analysis reveals challenging tokens induce abrupt gradient…

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Large Transformer models routinely achieve state-of-the-art results on a number of tasks but training these models can be prohibitively costly, especially on long sequences. We introduce two techniques to improve the efficiency of…

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Deep neural networks have achieved great success in computer vision, speech recognition and many other areas. The potential of recurrent neural networks especially the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) for open set communication signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-28 Youwei Guo , Hongyu Jiang , Jing Wu , Jie Zhou

We consider whether deep convolutional networks (CNNs) can represent decision functions with similar accuracy as recurrent networks such as LSTMs. First, we show that a deep CNN with an architecture inspired by the models recently…

We seek to understand how the representations of individual tokens and the structure of the learned feature space evolve between layers in deep neural networks under different learning objectives. We focus on the Transformers for our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Elena Voita , Rico Sennrich , Ivan Titov

It has been found that residual networks are an Euler discretization of solutions to Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). In this paper, we explore a deeper relationship between Transformer and numerical methods of ODEs. We show that a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Bei Li , Quan Du , Tao Zhou , Shuhan Zhou , Xin Zeng , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Many document-level neural machine translation (NMT) systems have explored the utility of context-aware architecture, usually requiring an increasing number of parameters and computational complexity. However, few attention is paid to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Pei Zhang , Boxing Chen , Niyu Ge , Kai Fan

Large Language Models (LLMs) encounter significant challenges in continual learning due to catastrophic forgetting, where new information overwrites previously acquired knowledge. This limitation leads to substantial environmental and…

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