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The dot product attention mechanism, originally designed for natural language processing tasks, is a cornerstone of modern Transformers. It adeptly captures semantic relationships between word pairs in sentences by computing a similarity…

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Quantum machine learning is a promising direction for building more efficient and expressive models, particularly in domains where understanding complex, structured data is critical. We present the Quantum Graph Transformer (QGT), a hybrid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Shamminuj Aktar , Andreas Bärtschi , Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy , Stephan Eidenbenz

Conventional attention-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) conducts dynamic alignment in generating the target sentence. By repeatedly reading the representation of source sentence, which keeps fixed after generated by the encoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Fandong Meng , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Qun Liu

Local features at neighboring spatial positions in feature maps have high correlation since their receptive fields are often overlapped. Self-attention usually uses the weighted sum (or other functions) with internal elements of each local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Yang Du , Chunfeng Yuan , Bing Li , Lili Zhao , Yangxi Li , Weiming Hu

To develop computational agents that better communicate using their own emergent language, we endow the agents with an ability to focus their attention on particular concepts in the environment. Humans often understand an object or scene as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Ryokan Ri , Ryo Ueda , Jason Naradowsky

In recommender systems, models mostly use a combination of embedding layers and multilayer feedforward neural networks. The high-dimensional sparse original features are downscaled in the embedding layer and then fed into the fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Mohan Hasama , Jing Li

We propose a new attention mechanism for neural based question answering, which depends on varying granularities of the input. Previous work focused on augmenting recurrent neural networks with simple attention mechanisms which are a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Yoram Bachrach , Andrej Zukov-Gregoric , Sam Coope , Ed Tovell , Bogdan Maksak , Jose Rodriguez , Conan McMurtie

A variety of attention mechanisms have been studied to improve the performance of various computer vision tasks. However, the prior methods overlooked the significance of retaining the information on both channel and spatial aspects to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Yichao Liu , Zongru Shao , Nico Hoffmann

Attention mechanism has been extensively integrated within mainstream neural network architectures, such as Transformers and graph attention networks. Yet, its underlying working principles remain somewhat elusive. What is its essence? Are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Tianyu Ruan , Shihua Zhang

The personalization of search results has gained increasing attention in the past few years, thanks to the development of Neural Networks-based approaches for Information Retrieval and the importance of personalization in many search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Elias Bassani , Pranav Kasela , Gabriella Pasi

Attention mechanisms represent a fundamental paradigm shift in neural network architectures, enabling models to selectively focus on relevant portions of input sequences through learned weighting functions. This monograph provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hasi Hays

The Mixup method has proven to be a powerful data augmentation technique in Computer Vision, with many successors that perform image mixing in a guided manner. One of the interesting research directions is transferring the underlying Mixup…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Dominik Lewy , Jacek Mańdziuk

Attention mechanisms are a central property of cognitive systems allowing them to selectively deploy cognitive resources in a flexible manner. Attention has been long studied in the neurosciences and there are numerous phenomenological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Ryan Singh , Christopher L. Buckley

In this paper, we propose a novel sequence-aware recommendation model. Our model utilizes self-attention mechanism to infer the item-item relationship from user's historical interactions. With self-attention, it is able to estimate the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Shuai Zhang , Yi Tay , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun

Attention plays a fundamental role in both natural and artificial intelligence systems. In deep learning, attention-based neural architectures, such as transformer architectures, are widely used to tackle problems in natural language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Pierre Baldi , Roman Vershynin

In this work, we propose several attention formulations for multivariate sequence data. We build on top of the recently introduced 2D-Attention and reformulate the attention learning methodology by quantifying the relevance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Kateryna Chumachenko , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Attention Mechanism is a widely used method for improving the performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on computer vision tasks. Despite its pervasiveness, we have a poor understanding of what its effectiveness stems from. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xiang Ye , Zihang He , Heng Wang , Yong Li

Pre-training Transformer from large-scale raw texts and fine-tuning on the desired task have achieved state-of-the-art results on diverse NLP tasks. However, it is unclear what the learned attention captures. The attention computed by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Yau-Shian Wang , Hung-Yi Lee , Yun-Nung Chen

Self-attention in vision transformers is often thought to perform perceptual grouping where tokens attend to other tokens with similar embeddings, which could correspond to semantically similar features of an object. However, attending to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Xu Pan , Aaron Philip , Ziqian Xie , Odelia Schwartz

Attention is a powerful and ubiquitous mechanism for allowing neural models to focus on particular salient pieces of information by taking their weighted average when making predictions. In particular, multi-headed attention is a driving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Paul Michel , Omer Levy , Graham Neubig