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Image generation has been successfully cast as an autoregressive sequence generation or transformation problem. Recent work has shown that self-attention is an effective way of modeling textual sequences. In this work, we generalize a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Niki Parmar , Ashish Vaswani , Jakob Uszkoreit , Łukasz Kaiser , Noam Shazeer , Alexander Ku , Dustin Tran

In the era of telecommunications, the increasing demand for complex and specialized communication systems has led to a focus on improving physical layer communications. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a promising solution avenue…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Arwin Gansekoele , Sandjai Bhulai , Mark Hoogendoorn , Rob van der Mei

An effective way to model the complex real world is to view the world as a composition of basic components of objects and transformations. Although humans through development understand the compositionality of the real world, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 T. Takada , W. Shimaya , Y. Ohmura , Y. Kuniyoshi

While convolutional neural networks have shown a tremendous impact on various computer vision tasks, they generally demonstrate limitations in explicitly modeling long-range dependencies due to the intrinsic locality of the convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Guanglei Yang , Hao Tang , Mingli Ding , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Convolution and self-attention are acting as two fundamental building blocks in deep neural networks, where the former extracts local image features in a linear way while the latter non-locally encodes high-order contextual relationships.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Xuanhong Chen , Hang Wang , Bingbing Ni

Group convolutional neural networks (G-CNNs) have been shown to increase parameter efficiency and model accuracy by incorporating geometric inductive biases. In this work, we investigate the properties of representations learned by regular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 David M. Knigge , David W. Romero , Erik J. Bekkers

This paper presents a novel framework for non-linear equivariant neural network layers on homogeneous spaces. The seminal work of Cohen et al. on equivariant $G$-CNNs on homogeneous spaces characterized the representation theory of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Elias Nyholm , Oscar Carlsson , Maurice Weiler , Daniel Persson

The shift from Convolutional Neural Networks to Transformers has reshaped computer vision, yet these two architectural families are typically viewed as fundamentally distinct. We argue that convolution and self-attention, despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mingi Kang , Jeová Farias Sales Rocha Neto

Recently, Transformers have shown promising performance in various vision tasks. To reduce the quadratic computation complexity caused by each query attending to all keys/values, various methods have constrained the range of attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Kai Liu , Tianyi Wu , Cong Liu , Guodong Guo

Rotation equivariance is a desirable property in many practical applications such as motion forecasting and 3D perception, where it can offer benefits like sample efficiency, better generalization, and robustness to input perturbations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Serge Assaad , Carlton Downey , Rami Al-Rfou , Nigamaa Nayakanti , Ben Sapp

Since the Transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 there has been many attempts to bring the self-attention paradigm in the field of computer vision. In this paper we propose a novel self-attention module that can be easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Roberto Pecoraro , Valerio Basile , Viviana Bono , Sara Gallo

Graph Transformer (GT), as a special type of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), utilizes multi-head attention to facilitate high-order message passing. However, this also imposes several limitations in node classification applications: 1) nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Jiajun Zhou , Xuanze Chen , Chenxuan Xie , Yu Shanqing , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Transformer-based deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performance across numerous language and vision tasks. While the self-attention mechanism, a core component of transformers, has proven capable of handling complex data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Laziz Abdullaev , Tan M. Nguyen

Equivariance to symmetries has proven to be a powerful inductive bias in deep learning research. Recent works on mesh processing have concentrated on various kinds of natural symmetries, including translations, rotations, scaling, node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Sourya Basu , Jose Gallego-Posada , Francesco Viganò , James Rowbottom , Taco Cohen

The success of the self-attention mechanism in classical machine learning models has inspired the development of quantum analogs aimed at reducing computational overhead. Self-attention integrates learnable query and key matrices to…

How can prior knowledge on the transformation invariances of a domain be incorporated into the architecture of a neural network? We propose Equivariant Transformers (ETs), a family of differentiable image-to-image mappings that improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Kai Sheng Tai , Peter Bailis , Gregory Valiant

Transformers are increasingly dominating multi-modal reasoning tasks, such as visual question answering, achieving state-of-the-art results thanks to their ability to contextualize information using the self-attention and co-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Hila Chefer , Shir Gur , Lior Wolf

Equivariance of linear neural network layers is well studied. In this work, we relax the equivariance condition to only be true in a projective sense. We propose a way to construct a projectively equivariant neural network through building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Georg Bökman , Axel Flinth , Fredrik Kahl

Variants dropout methods have been designed for the fully-connected layer, convolutional layer and recurrent layer in neural networks, and shown to be effective to avoid overfitting. As an appealing alternative to recurrent and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Lin Zehui , Pengfei Liu , Luyao Huang , Junkun Chen , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Learning and reasoning about 3D molecular structures with varying size is an emerging and important challenge in machine learning and especially in drug discovery. Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) can simultaneously leverage the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Tuan Le , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert