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Since self-attention layers in Transformers are permutation invariant by design, positional encodings must be explicitly incorporated to enable spatial understanding. However, fixed-size lookup tables used in traditional learnable position…

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We conducted empirical experiments to assess the transferability of a light curve transformer to datasets with different cadences and magnitude distributions using various positional encodings (PEs). We proposed a new approach to…

Multi-layer perceptrons (MLP) have proven to be effective scene encoders when combined with higher-dimensional projections of the input, commonly referred to as \textit{positional encoding}. However, scenes with a wide frequency spectrum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Zoe Landgraf , Alexander Sorkine Hornung , Ricardo Silveira Cabral

Transformer-based models have brought a radical change to neural machine translation. A key feature of the Transformer architecture is the so-called multi-head attention mechanism, which allows the model to focus simultaneously on different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Alessandro Raganato , Yves Scherrer , Jörg Tiedemann

A key module in neural transformer-based deep architectures is positional encoding. This module enables a suitable way to encode positional information as input for transformer neural layers. This success has been rooted in the use of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ezequiel Lopez-Rubio , Macoris Decena-Gimenez , Rafael Marcos Luque-Baena

Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of position encoding in transformer architectures. By incorporating positional information, this approach provides essential guidance for modeling dependencies between elements across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Avinash Amballa

A multi-layer perceptron (MLP) is a type of neural networks which has a long history of research and has been studied actively recently in computer vision and graphics fields. One of the well-known problems of an MLP is the capability of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Shin Fujieda , Atsushi Yoshimura , Takahiro Harada

Most approaches for semantic segmentation use only information from color cameras to parse the scenes, yet recent advancements show that using depth data allows to further improve performances. In this work, we focus on transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Francesco Barbato , Giulia Rizzoli , Pietro Zanuttigh

Accurate predictions rely on the expressiveness power of graph deep learning frameworks like graph neural networks and graph transformers, where a positional encoding mechanism has become much more indispensable in recent state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Katherine Tieu , Dongqi Fu , Zihao Li , Ross Maciejewski , Jingrui He

Recurrent models have been dominating the field of neural machine translation (NMT) for the past few years. Transformers \citep{vaswani2017attention}, have radically changed it by proposing a novel architecture that relies on a feed-forward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Joyce Zheng , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Peyman Passban

Implicit neural representations (INRs) are increasingly being used as tools to map coordinates to signals, encompassing applications from neural fields to texture compression, shape representations, and beyond. Most INR methods are based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Guillaume Perez , Janarbek Matai , Takahiro Harada

We propose an attention-based approach for multimodal image patch matching using a Transformer encoder attending to the feature maps of a multiscale Siamese CNN. Our encoder is shown to efficiently aggregate multiscale image embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Aviad Moreshet , Yosi Keller

Positional encodings are a core part of transformer-based models, enabling processing of sequential data without recurrence. This paper presents a theoretical framework to analyze how various positional encoding methods, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yin Li

Multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have been successfully used to represent 3D shapes implicitly and compactly, by mapping 3D coordinates to the corresponding signed distance values or occupancy values. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Peng-Shuai Wang , Yang Liu , Yu-Qi Yang , Xin Tong

In order to preserve word-order information in a non-autoregressive setting, transformer architectures tend to include positional knowledge, by (for instance) adding positional encodings to token embeddings. Several modifications have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Vinit Ravishankar , Anders Søgaard

Fourier features based positional encoding (PE) is commonly used in machine learning tasks that involve learning high-frequency features from low-dimensional inputs, such as 3D view synthesis and time series regression with neural tangent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Chuanhao Sun , Zhihang Yuan , Kai Xu , Luo Mai , N. Siddharth , Shuo Chen , Mahesh K. Marina

Transformer architecture has enabled recent progress in speech enhancement. Since Transformers are position-agostic, positional encoding is the de facto standard component used to enable Transformers to distinguish the order of elements in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Qiquan Zhang , Meng Ge , Hongxu Zhu , Eliathamby Ambikairajah , Qi Song , Zhaoheng Ni , Haizhou Li

Forecasting the future traffic flow distribution in an area is an important issue for traffic management in an intelligent transportation system. The key challenge of traffic prediction is to capture spatial and temporal relations between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Shiheng Ma , Jingcai Guo , Song Guo , Minyi Guo

Machine-learning models have demonstrated a great ability to learn complex patterns and make predictions. In high-dimensional nonlinear problems of fluid dynamics, data representation often greatly affects the performance and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-29 Runze Li , Yufei Zhang , Haixin Chen

Learning an encoding of feature vectors in terms of an over-complete dictionary or a information geometric (Fisher vectors) construct is wide-spread in statistical signal processing and computer vision. In content based information…

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