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In recent years, how to strike a good trade-off between accuracy and inference speed has become the core issue for real-time semantic segmentation applications, which plays a vital role in real-world scenarios such as autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Guangwei Gao , Guoan Xu , Yi Yu , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Dong Yue

Although current deep learning methods have achieved impressive results for semantic segmentation, they incur high computational costs and have a huge number of parameters. For real-time applications, inference speed and memory usage are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Mengyu Liu , Hujun Yin

Transformer neural networks (TNN) have been widely utilized on a diverse range of applications, including natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and computer vision (CV). Their widespread adoption has been primarily driven…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ehsan Kabir , Jason D. Bakos , David Andrews , Miaoqing Huang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) reach high accuracies in various application domains, but require large amounts of computation and incur costly data movements. One method to decrease these costs while trading accuracy is weight and/or…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Cecilia Latotzke , Tim Ciesielski , Tobias Gemmeke

Recently, the Transformer machine translation system has shown strong results by stacking attention layers on both the source and target-language sides. But the inference of this model is slow due to the heavy use of dot-product attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Tong Xiao , Yinqiao Li , Jingbo Zhu , Zhengtao Yu , Tongran Liu

In recent years, transformer-based deep learning networks have gained popularity in Hyperspectral (HS) unmixing applications due to their superior performance. The attention mechanism within transformers facilitates input-dependent…

Recent advances in transformer-based models have drawn attention to exploring these techniques in medical image segmentation, especially in conjunction with the U-Net model (or its variants), which has shown great success in medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Xiangyi Yan , Hao Tang , Shanlin Sun , Haoyu Ma , Deying Kong , Xiaohui Xie

The transformer model is known to be computationally demanding, and prohibitively costly for long sequences, as the self-attention module uses a quadratic time and space complexity with respect to sequence length. Many researchers have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ziwei He , Meng Yang , Minwei Feng , Jingcheng Yin , Xinbing Wang , Jingwen Leng , Zhouhan Lin

Transformer-based models have achieved dominant performance in numerous NLP tasks. Despite their remarkable successes, pre-trained transformers such as BERT suffer from a computationally expensive self-attention mechanism that interacts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jungmin Yun , Mihyeon Kim , Youngbin Kim

Flexible and accurate interpolation schemes using machine learning could be of great benefit for many use-cases in numerical simulations and post-processing, such as temporal upsampling or storage reduction. In this work, we adapt the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-12 Jonas Pronk , Oliver Porth , Jordy Davelaar

In this paper, we show that a simple self-supervised pre-trained audio model can achieve comparable inference efficiency to more complicated pre-trained models with speech transformer encoders. These speech transformers rely on mixing…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Sungho Jeon , Ching-Feng Yeh , Hakan Inan , Wei-Ning Hsu , Rashi Rungta , Yashar Mehdad , Daniel Bikel

Prompt tuning is an emerging way of adapting pre-trained language models to downstream tasks. However, the existing studies are mainly to add prompts to the input sequence. This way would not work as expected due to the intermediate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Jingping Liu , Yuqiu Song , Kui Xue , Hongli Sun , Chao Wang , Lihan Chen , Haiyun Jiang , Jiaqing Liang , Tong Ruan

We present FourierNAT, a novel non-autoregressive Transformer (NAT) architecture that employs Fourier-based mixing in the decoder to generate output sequences in parallel. While traditional NAT approaches often face challenges with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Andrew Kiruluta , Eric Lundy , Andreas Lemos

Neural machine translation (NMT) is nowadays commonly applied at the subword level, using byte-pair encoding. A promising alternative approach focuses on character-level translation, which simplifies processing pipelines in NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Nikolay Banar , Walter Daelemans , Mike Kestemont

Recently, self-attention models such as Transformers have given competitive results compared to recurrent neural network systems in speech recognition. The key factor for the outstanding performance of self-attention models is their ability…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-29 Shucong Zhang , Erfan Loweimi , Peter Bell , Steve Renals

Transformer architecture has emerged to be successful in a number of natural language processing tasks. However, its applications to medical vision remain largely unexplored. In this study, we present UTNet, a simple yet powerful hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yunhe Gao , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

Adjusting the latency, power, and accuracy of natural language understanding models is a desirable objective of an efficient architecture. This paper proposes an efficient Transformer architecture that adjusts the inference computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Sajjad Kachuee , Mohammad Sharifkhani

Modern systems for automatic speech recognition, including the RNN-Transducer and Attention-based Encoder-Decoder (AED), are designed so that the encoder is not required to alter the time-position of information from the audio sequence into…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Adam Stooke , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Khe Chai Sim , Pedro Moreno Mengibar

Photonic computing has emerged as a promising substrate for accelerating the dense linear-algebra operations at the heart of AI, yet adoption for large Transformer models remains in its infancy. We identify two bottlenecks: (1) costly…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Hanqing Zhu , Zhican Zhou , Shupeng Ning , Xuhao Wu , Ray Chen , Yating Wan , David Pan

Transformers have demonstrated remarkable success across vision, language, and video. Yet, increasing task complexity has led to larger models and more tokens, raising the quadratic cost of self-attention and the overhead of GPU memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Joonmyung Choi , Sanghyeok Lee , Byungoh Ko , Eunseo Kim , Jihyung Kil , Hyunwoo J. Kim