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The Transformer architecture has become increasingly popular over the past two years, owing to its impressive performance on a number of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, all Transformer computations occur at the level of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-05 David Donahue , Vladislav Lialin , Anna Rumshisky

Biometrics on mobile devices has attracted a lot of attention in recent years as it is considered a user-friendly authentication method. This interest has also been motivated by the success of Deep Learning (DL). Architectures based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Paula Delgado-Santos , Ruben Tolosana , Richard Guest , Farzin Deravi , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez

The transformers have achieved significant accomplishments in the natural language processing as its outstanding parallel processing capabilities and highly flexible attention mechanism. In addition, increasing studies based on transformers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Wei Lan , Guohang He , Mingyang Liu , Qingfeng Chen , Junyue Cao , Wei Peng

In vision-based action recognition, spatio-temporal features from different modalities are used for recognizing activities. Temporal modeling is a long challenge of action recognition. However, there are limited methods such as pre-computed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Elham Shabaninia , Hossein Nezamabadi-pour , Fatemeh Shafizadegan

Visual segmentation seeks to partition images, video frames, or point clouds into multiple segments or groups. This technique has numerous real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, image editing, robot sensing, and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiangtai Li , Henghui Ding , Haobo Yuan , Wenwei Zhang , Jiangmiao Pang , Guangliang Cheng , Kai Chen , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

Transformer architectures have revolutionized machine learning across a wide range of domains, from natural language processing to scientific computing. However, their growing deployment in high-stakes applications, such as computer vision,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Trishit Mondal , Ameya D. Jagtap

Vision Transformers are very popular nowadays due to their state-of-the-art performance in several computer vision tasks, such as image classification and action recognition. Although their performance has been greatly enhanced through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Dimitrios Konstantinidis , Ilias Papastratis , Kosmas Dimitropoulos , Petros Daras

In the past few years we have seen the meteoric appearance of dozens of foundation models of the Transformer family, all of which have memorable and sometimes funny, but not self-explanatory, names. The goal of this paper is to offer a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xavier Amatriain , Ananth Sankar , Jie Bing , Praveen Kumar Bodigutla , Timothy J. Hazen , Michaeel Kazi

Asking clarifying questions in response to ambiguous or faceted queries has been recognized as a useful technique for various information retrieval systems, especially conversational search systems with limited bandwidth interfaces.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Helia Hashemi , Hamed Zamani , W. Bruce Croft

Nobody knows how language works, but many theories abound. Transformers are a class of neural networks that process language automatically with more success than alternatives, both those based on neural computations and those that rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Felix Hill

The Transformer architecture has become prominent in developing large causal language models. However, mechanisms to explain its capabilities are not well understood. Focused on the training process, here we establish a meta-learning view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xinbo Wu , Lav R. Varshney

Image Classification is a fundamental task in the field of computer vision that frequently serves as a benchmark for gauging advancements in Computer Vision. Over the past few years, significant progress has been made in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Mahmoud Khalil , Ahmad Khalil , Alioune Ngom

Modeling long texts has been an essential technique in the field of natural language processing (NLP). With the ever-growing number of long documents, it is important to develop effective modeling methods that can process and analyze such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Zican Dong , Tianyi Tang , Junyi Li , Wayne Xin Zhao

The application of mobile biometrics as a user-friendly authentication method has increased in the last years. Recent studies have proposed novel behavioral biometric recognition systems based on Transformers, which currently outperform the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Pietro Melzi , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Paula Delgado-Santos , Giuseppe Stragapede , Julian Fierrez , Javier Ortega-Garcia

Language models based on the Transformer architecture achieve excellent results in many language-related tasks, such as text classification or sentiment analysis. However, despite the architecture of these models being well-defined, little…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Miguel López-Otal , Jorge Gracia , Jordi Bernad , Carlos Bobed , Lucía Pitarch-Ballesteros , Emma Anglés-Herrero

Deep learning has made tremendous progress in the last decade. A key success factor is the large amount of architectures, layers, objectives, and optimization techniques. They include a myriad of variants related to attention,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Johannes Schneider , Michalis Vlachos

We find limits to the Transformer architecture for language modeling and show it has a universal prediction property in an information-theoretic sense. We further analyze performance in non-asymptotic data regimes to understand the role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sourya Basu , Moulik Choraria , Lav R. Varshney

With the growing Deaf and Hard of Hearing population worldwide and the persistent shortage of certified sign language interpreters, there is a pressing need for an efficient, signs-driven, integrated end-to-end translation system, from sign…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Nada Shahin , Leila Ismail

Graph Transformers (GTs) have demonstrated a strong capability in modeling graph structures by addressing the intrinsic limitations of graph neural networks (GNNs), such as over-smoothing and over-squashing. Recent studies have proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Chaohao Yuan , Kangfei Zhao , Ercan Engin Kuruoglu , Liang Wang , Tingyang Xu , Wenbing Huang , Deli Zhao , Hong Cheng , Yu Rong

Transformers have revolutionized machine learning, yet their inner workings remain opaque to many. We present Transformer Explainer, an interactive visualization tool designed for non-experts to learn about Transformers through the GPT-2…