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Recently computer vision has seen advancements mainly thanks to Transformer-based models. However many non-Transformer methods are still doing well being a direct competition of Transformer-based models. This review tries to present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nur Mohammad Kazi , Ibteshum Khaled , Md. Luthful Hasan Galib , Ali Faruk Shihab , Md. Rakibul Islam

Transformer is a state-of-the-art model in the field of natural language processing (NLP). Current NLP models primarily increase the number of transformers to improve processing performance. However, this technique requires a lot of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Woohyeon Moon , Taeyoung Kim , Bumgeun Park , Dongsoo Har

Transformers play a central role in the inner workings of large language models. We develop a mathematical framework for analyzing Transformers based on their interpretation as interacting particle systems, which reveals that clusters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Borjan Geshkovski , Cyril Letrouit , Yury Polyanskiy , Philippe Rigollet

Transformer is a ubiquitous model for natural language processing and has attracted wide attentions in computer vision. The attention maps are indispensable for a transformer model to encode the dependencies among input tokens. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yujing Wang , Yaming Yang , Jiangang Bai , Mingliang Zhang , Jing Bai , Jing Yu , Ce Zhang , Gao Huang , Yunhai Tong

Recent years have seen a phenomenal rise in performance and applications of transformer neural networks. The family of transformer networks, including Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformer (BERT), Generative Pretrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Krishna Teja Chitty-Venkata , Sparsh Mittal , Murali Emani , Venkatram Vishwanath , Arun K. Somani

Video segmentation encompasses a wide range of categories of problem formulation, e.g., object, scene, actor-action and multimodal video segmentation, for delineating task-specific scene components with pixel-level masks. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Rezaul Karim , Richard P. Wildes

Transformer-based foundation models have emerged as a dominant paradigm in time series analysis, offering unprecedented capabilities in tasks such as forecasting, anomaly detection, classification, trend analysis and many more time series…

Transformers have become an important workhorse of machine learning, with numerous applications. This necessitates the development of reliable methods for increasing their transparency. Multiple interpretability methods, often based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Ameen Ali , Thomas Schnake , Oliver Eberle , Grégoire Montavon , Klaus-Robert Müller , Lior Wolf

Transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance in natural language processing and related domains, as they largely focus on sequential, autoregressive next-token prediction tasks. Yet, they struggle in logical reasoning, not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Renee Ge , Qianli Liao , Tomaso Poggio

Tree transducers are formal automata that transform trees into other trees. Many varieties of tree transducers have been explored in the automata theory literature, and more recently, in the machine translation literature. In this paper I…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-03-29 Alex Rudnick

Transformers underlie almost all state-of-the-art language models in computational linguistics, yet their cognitive adequacy as models of human sentence processing remains disputed. In this work, we use a surprisal-based linking mechanism…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Titus von der Malsburg , Sebastian Padó

Transformers are among the state of the art for many tasks in speech, vision, and natural language processing, among others. Self-attentions, which are crucial contributors to this performance have quadratic computational complexity, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Roshan Sharma , Bhiksha Raj

Generative AI has received much attention in the image and language domains, with the transformer neural network continuing to dominate the state of the art. Application of these models to time series generation is less explored, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Alexander Sommers , Logan Cummins , Sudip Mittal , Shahram Rahimi , Maria Seale , Joseph Jaboure , Thomas Arnold

While deep learning has received a surge of interest in a variety of fields in recent years, major deep learning models barely use complex numbers. However, speech, signal and audio data are naturally complex-valued after Fourier Transform,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Muqiao Yang , Martin Q. Ma , Dongyu Li , Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

We show that many infinite classes of permutations over finite fields can be constructed via translators with a large choice of parameters. We first charac- terize some functions having linear translators, based on which several families of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Nastja Cepak , Pascale Charpin , Enes Pasalic

Transformers are a neural network architecture originally developed for natural language processing, which have since become a foundational tool for solving a wide range of problems, including text, audio, image processing, reinforcement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Jordi de la Torre

Transformers have supplanted recurrent models in a large number of NLP tasks. However, the differences in their abilities to model different syntactic properties remain largely unknown. Past works suggest that LSTMs generalize very well on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Satwik Bhattamishra , Kabir Ahuja , Navin Goyal

We establish connections between the Transformer architecture, originally introduced for natural language processing, and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for representation learning on graphs. We show how Transformers can be viewed as message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Chaitanya K. Joshi

Transformers have become the foundational architecture for a broad spectrum of sequence modeling applications, underpinning state-of-the-art systems in natural language processing, vision, and beyond. However, their theoretical limitations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Michelle Yuan , Weiyi Sun , Amir H. Rezaeian , Jyotika Singh , Sandip Ghoshal , Yao-Ting Wang , Miguel Ballesteros , Yassine Benajiba

Recently, Transformer based end-to-end models have achieved great success in many areas including speech recognition. However, compared to LSTM models, the heavy computational cost of the Transformer during inference is a key issue to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xie Chen , Yu Wu , Zhenghao Wang , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li