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Recent advances in learning-based image compression typically come at the cost of high complexity. Designing computationally efficient architectures remains an open challenge. In this paper, we empirically investigate the impact of…

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The Transformer architecture has become a dominant choice in many domains, such as natural language processing and computer vision. Yet, it has not achieved competitive performance on popular leaderboards of graph-level prediction compared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Chengxuan Ying , Tianle Cai , Shengjie Luo , Shuxin Zheng , Guolin Ke , Di He , Yanming Shen , Tie-Yan Liu

The introduction of the transformer architecture in 2017 marked the most striking advancement in natural language processing. The transformer is a model architecture relying entirely on an attention mechanism to draw global dependencies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Zeqian Chen

Large language models (LLMs) based on Transformer have been widely applied in the filed of natural language processing (NLP), demonstrating strong performance, particularly in handling short text tasks. However, when it comes to long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yijun Liu , Jinzheng Yu , Yang Xu , Zhongyang Li , Qingfu Zhu

Deep learning has fundamentally reshaped the landscape of artificial intelligence over the past decade, enabling remarkable achievements across diverse domains. At the heart of these developments lie multi-layered neural network…

Transformers are responsible for the vast majority of recent advances in natural language processing. The majority of practical natural language processing applications of these models are typically enabled through transfer learning. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Vladislav Mosin , Igor Samenko , Alexey Tikhonov , Borislav Kozlovskii , Ivan P. Yamshchikov

This paper studies interpretable and fair artificial intelligence architectures for understanding English reading. Introduced transformer-based models, integrating advanced attention mechanisms and gradient-based feature attribution. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ping Li

Biometrics on mobile devices has attracted a lot of attention in recent years as it is considered a user-friendly authentication method. This interest has also been motivated by the success of Deep Learning (DL). Architectures based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Paula Delgado-Santos , Ruben Tolosana , Richard Guest , Farzin Deravi , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez

Transformer architectures contribute to managing long-term dependencies for Natural Language Processing, representing one of the most recent changes in the field. These architectures are the basis of the innovative, cutting-edge Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Silvia García-Méndez , Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , María del Carmen Somoza-López

Natural language processing (NLP) made an impressive jump with the introduction of Transformers. ChatGPT is one of the most famous examples, changing the perception of the possibilities of AI even outside the research community. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Silas Alberti , Niclas Dern , Laura Thesing , Gitta Kutyniok

This document aims to be a self-contained, mathematically precise overview of transformer architectures and algorithms (*not* results). It covers what transformers are, how they are trained, what they are used for, their key architectural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Mary Phuong , Marcus Hutter

Owing to success in the data-rich domain of natural images, Transformers have recently become popular in medical image segmentation. However, the pairing of Transformers with convolutional blocks in varying architectural permutations leaves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Saikat Roy , Gregor Koehler , Michael Baumgartner , Constantin Ulrich , Jens Petersen , Fabian Isensee , Klaus Maier-Hein

Transformer architectures are the backbone of most modern language models, but understanding the inner workings of these models still largely remains an open problem. One way that research in the past has tackled this problem is by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Utkarsh Tiwari , Aviral Gupta , Michael Hahn

Vision transformers are emerging as a powerful tool to solve computer vision problems. Recent techniques have also proven the efficacy of transformers beyond the image domain to solve numerous video-related tasks. Among those, human action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Anwaar Ulhaq , Naveed Akhtar , Ganna Pogrebna , Ajmal Mian

Transformer becomes the state-of-the-art translation model, while it is not well studied how each intermediate component contributes to the model performance, which poses significant challenges for designing optimal architectures. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Wenxuan Wang , Zhaopeng Tu

Transformers are a type of neural network that have demonstrated remarkable performance across various domains, particularly in natural language processing tasks. Motivated by this success, research on the theoretical understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Naoki Takeshita , Masaaki Imaizumi

In recent times, Transformer-based language models are making quite an impact in the field of natural language processing. As relevant parallels can be drawn between biological sequences and natural languages, the models used in NLP can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Nimisha Ghosh , Daniele Santoni , Indrajit Saha , Giovanni Felici

Transformer models have emerged as potent solutions to a wide array of multidisciplinary challenges. The deployment of Transformer architectures is significantly hindered by their extensive computational and memory requirements,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhengxian Lu , Fangyu Wang , Zhiwei Xu , Fei Yang , Tao Li

The internal structure and operation mechanism of large-scale language models are analyzed theoretically, especially how Transformer and its derivative architectures can restrict computing efficiency while capturing long-term dependencies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Taiyuan Mei , Yun Zi , Xiaohan Cheng , Zijun Gao , Qi Wang , Haowei Yang

Transformer-based pre-trained models have gained much advance in recent years, becoming one of the most important backbones in natural language processing. Recent work shows that the attention mechanism inside Transformer may not be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yile Wang , Linyi Yang , Zhiyang Teng , Ming Zhou , Yue Zhang