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Hippocampal cognitive map---a neuronal representation of the spatial environment---is broadly discussed in the computational neuroscience literature for decades. More recent studies point out that hippocampus plays a major role in producing…

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Transformer architectures have achieved state-of-the-art results on a variety of sequence modeling tasks. However, their attention mechanism comes with a quadratic complexity in sequence lengths, making the computational overhead…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Hao Peng , Jungo Kasai , Nikolaos Pappas , Dani Yogatama , Zhaofeng Wu , Lingpeng Kong , Roy Schwartz , Noah A. Smith

Episodic memory is a central component of human memory, which refers to the ability to recall coherent events grounded in who, when, and where. However, most agent memory systems only emphasize semantic recall and treat experience as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Kexin Ma , Bojun Li , Yuhua Tang , Liting Sun , Ruochun Jin

Attention mechanism is a significant part of Transformer models. It helps extract features from embedded vectors by adding global information and its expressivity has been proved to be powerful. Nevertheless, the quadratic complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hanwen Liu , Yixuan Ma , Shi Jin , Yuguang Wang

Neural style transfer has drawn considerable attention from both academic and industrial field. Although visual effect and efficiency have been significantly improved, existing methods are unable to coordinate spatial distribution of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Yuan Yao , Jianqiang Ren , Xuansong Xie , Weidong Liu , Yong-Jin Liu , Jun Wang

Because we are highly motivated to be understood, we created public external representations -- mime, language, art -- to externalise our inner states. We argue that such external representations are a pre-condition for access…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-17 Chrisantha Fernando , Dylan Banarse , Simon Osindero

The most enigmatic aspect of consciousness is the fact that it is felt, as a subjective sensation. The theory proposed here aims to explain this particular aspect. The theory encompasses both the computation that is presumably involved and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-29 J. H. van Hateren

In this paper, we present an attention mechanism scheme to improve person re-identification task. Inspired by biology, we propose Self Attention Grid (SAG) to discover the most informative parts from a high-resolution image using its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Jean-Paul Ainam , Ke Qin , Guisong Liu

The attention layer in a neural network model provides insights into the model's reasoning behind its prediction, which are usually criticized for being opaque. Recently, seemingly contradictory viewpoints have emerged about the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Shikhar Vashishth , Shyam Upadhyay , Gaurav Singh Tomar , Manaal Faruqui

Most models of visual attention aim at predicting either top-down or bottom-up control, as studied using different visual search and free-viewing tasks. In this paper we propose the Human Attention Transformer (HAT), a single model that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zhibo Yang , Sounak Mondal , Seoyoung Ahn , Ruoyu Xue , Gregory Zelinsky , Minh Hoai , Dimitris Samaras

Numerous studies on text-to-image (T2I) generative models have utilized cross-attention maps to boost application performance and interpret model behavior. However, the distinct characteristics of attention maps from different attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jungwon Park , Jungmin Ko , Dongnam Byun , Wonjong Rhee

Continual learning aims to provide intelligent agents capable of learning multiple tasks sequentially with neural networks. One of its main challenging, catastrophic forgetting, is caused by the neural networks non-optimal ability to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Ghada Sokar , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

This paper argues that self-awareness is a learned behavior that emerges in organisms whose brains have a sufficiently integrated, complex ability for associative learning and memory. Continual sensory input of information related to the…

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Human attention modelling has proven, in recent years, to be particularly useful not only for understanding the cognitive processes underlying visual exploration, but also for providing support to artificial intelligence models that aim to…

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Automatic sleep staging is a challenging problem and state-of-the-art algorithms have not yet reached satisfactory performance to be used instead of manual scoring by a sleep technician. Much research has been done to find good feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Martin Längkvist , Amy Loutfi

Learning object-centric representations of complex scenes is a promising step towards enabling efficient abstract reasoning from low-level perceptual features. Yet, most deep learning approaches learn distributed representations that do not…

Attention mechanism is contributing to the majority of recent advances in machine learning for natural language processing. Additionally, it results in an attention map that shows the proportional influence of each input in its decision.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Duc Hau Nguyen , Cyrielle Mallart , Guillaume Gravier , Pascale Sébillot

Attention-based methods have played important roles in model interpretations, where the calculated attention weights are expected to highlight the critical parts of inputs~(e.g., keywords in sentences). However, recent research found that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-04 Bing Bai , Jian Liang , Guanhua Zhang , Hao Li , Kun Bai , Fei Wang

Visual attention is a mechanism closely intertwined with vision and memory. Top-down information influences visual processing through attention. We designed a neural network model inspired by aspects of human visual attention. This model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ruoyang Hu , Robert A. Jacobs

The key to a Transformer model is the self-attention mechanism, which allows the model to analyze an entire sequence in a computationally efficient manner. Recent work has suggested the possibility that general attention mechanisms used by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Thomas Dowdell , Hongyu Zhang