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Recent Vision Transformer~(ViT) models have demonstrated encouraging results across various computer vision tasks, thanks to their competence in modeling long-range dependencies of image patches or tokens via self-attention. These models,…

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In this paper, we explore an important yet previously neglected question: Do context aggregation patterns across Language Models (LMs) share commonalities? While some works have investigated context aggregation or attention weights in LMs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jinglin Liang , Jin Zhong , Shuangping Huang , Yunqing Hu , Huiyuan Zhang , Huifang Li , Lixin Fan , Hanlin Gu

Attention modules, as simple and effective tools, have not only enabled deep neural networks to achieve state-of-the-art results in many domains, but also enhanced their interpretability. Most current models use deterministic attention…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-22 Xinjie Fan , Shujian Zhang , Bo Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

Although numerous clustering algorithms have been developed, many existing methods still leverage k-means technique to detect clusters of data points. However, the performance of k-means heavily depends on the estimation of centers of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Quanxue Gao , Qianqian Wang , Han Lu , Wei Xia , Xinbo Gao

Graphs model latent variable relationships in many real-world systems, and Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) are widely used to learn such structures for downstream tasks. While edge-based MPNNs effectively capture local interactions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Thomas Bailie , Yun Sing Koh , Karthik Mukkavilli

Recent advances in machine learning establish the ability of certain neural-network architectures called neural operators to approximate maps between function spaces. Motivated by a prospect of employing them in fundamental physics, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-20 Sebastian Mizera

Attention mechanisms underpin modern deep learning, while the quadratic time and space complexity limit scalability for long sequences. To address this, Quantum Annealing Multi-Head Attention (QAMA) is proposed, a novel drop-in operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Peng Du , Jinjing Shi , Wenxuan Wang , Yin Ma , Kai Wen , Xuelong Li

In this work, quantum transformers are designed and analysed in detail by extending the state-of-the-art classical transformer neural network architectures known to be very performant in natural language processing and image analysis.…

We study the matrix-variate regression problem $Y_i = \sum_{k} \beta_{1k} X_i \beta_{2k}^{\top} + E_i$ for $i=1,2\dots,n$ in the high dimensional regime wherein the response $Y_i$ are matrices whose dimensions $p_{1}\times p_{2}$ outgrow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-01 Yin-Jen Chen , Minh Tang

Attention mechanisms have significantly advanced visual models by capturing global context effectively. However, their reliance on large-scale datasets and substantial computational resources poses challenges in data-scarce and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Chenghao Li , Chaoning Zhang , Boheng Zeng , Yi Lu , Pengbo Shi , Qingzi Chen , Jirui Liu , Lingyun Zhu , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Attention mechanisms are becoming increasingly popular, being used in neural network models in multiple domains such as natural language processing (NLP) and vision applications, especially at the edge. However, attention layers are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Mohit Upadhyay , Rohan Juneja , Weng-Fai Wong , Li-Shiuan Peh

Network data has become widespread, larger, and more complex over the years. Traditional network data is dyadic, capturing the relations among pairs of entities. With the need to model interactions among more than two entities, significant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Hao Tian , Reza Zafarani

Linear attention has emerged as a promising direction for scaling Vision Transformers beyond the quadratic cost of dense self-attention. A prevalent strategy is to compress spatial tokens into a compact set of intermediate proxies that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuntong Li , Hainuo Wang , Hengxing Liu , Mingjia Li , Xiaojie Guo

Designing an effective channel attention mechanism implores one to find a lossy-compression method allowing for optimal feature representation. Despite recent progress in the area, it remains an open problem. FcaNet, the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Hadi Salman , Caleb Parks , Matthew Swan , John Gauch

The most widely used artificial intelligence (AI) models today are Transformers employing self-attention. In its standard form, self-attention incurs costs that increase with context length, driving demand for storage, compute, and energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Franz A. Heinsen , Leo Kozachkov

We study a standard distributed optimization framework where $N$ networked nodes collaboratively minimize the sum of their local convex costs. The main body of existing work considers the described problem when the underling network is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Anit Kumar Sahu , Dusan Jakovetic , Dragana Bajovic , Soummya Kar

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

The advent of Transformers marked a significant breakthrough in sequence modelling, providing a highly performant architecture capable of leveraging GPU parallelism. However, Transformers are computationally expensive at inference time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Leo Feng , Frederick Tung , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Mohamed Osama Ahmed , Yoshua Bengio , Greg Mori

Nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising technology to meet the demands of the next generation wireless networks on massive connectivity, high throughput and reliability, improved fairness, and low latency. In this context,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Hessam Mahdavifar

Motivated by the problem of fast processing of attention matrices, we study fast algorithms for computing matrix-vector products for asymmetric Gaussian Kernel matrices $K\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$. $K$'s columns are indexed by a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Piotr Indyk , Michael Kapralov , Kshiteej Sheth , Tal Wagner