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Self-attention is a useful mechanism to build generative models for language and images. It determines the importance of context elements by comparing each element to the current time step. In this paper, we show that a very lightweight…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Felix Wu , Angela Fan , Alexei Baevski , Yann N. Dauphin , Michael Auli

Relying entirely on an attention mechanism, the Transformer introduced by Vaswani et al. (2017) achieves state-of-the-art results for machine translation. In contrast to recurrent and convolutional neural networks, it does not explicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Peter Shaw , Jakob Uszkoreit , Ashish Vaswani

We propose Sparse Sinkhorn Attention, a new efficient and sparse method for learning to attend. Our method is based on differentiable sorting of internal representations. Concretely, we introduce a meta sorting network that learns to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Yi Tay , Dara Bahri , Liu Yang , Donald Metzler , Da-Cheng Juan

The key to a Transformer model is the self-attention mechanism, which allows the model to analyze an entire sequence in a computationally efficient manner. Recent work has suggested the possibility that general attention mechanisms used by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Thomas Dowdell , Hongyu Zhang

We present SegNeXt, a simple convolutional network architecture for semantic segmentation. Recent transformer-based models have dominated the field of semantic segmentation due to the efficiency of self-attention in encoding spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Meng-Hao Guo , Cheng-Ze Lu , Qibin Hou , Zhengning Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Shi-Min Hu

While attention mechanisms have been proven to be effective in many NLP tasks, majority of them are data-driven. We propose a novel knowledge-attention encoder which incorporates prior knowledge from external lexical resources into deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Pengfei Li , Kezhi Mao , Xuefeng Yang , Qi Li

Advanced methods of applying deep learning to structured data such as graphs have been proposed in recent years. In particular, studies have focused on generalizing convolutional neural networks to graph data, which includes redefining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Junhyun Lee , Inyeop Lee , Jaewoo Kang

Attention-based beamformers have recently been shown to be effective for multi-channel speech recognition. However, they are less capable at capturing local information. In this work, we propose a 2D Conv-Attention module which combines…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Bhargav Pulugundla , Yang Gao , Brian King , Gokce Keskin , Harish Mallidi , Minhua Wu , Jasha Droppo , Roland Maas

Transformer models typically calculate attention matrices using dot products, which have limitations when capturing nonlinear relationships between embedding vectors. We propose Neural Attention, a technique that replaces dot products with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Andrew DiGiugno , Ausif Mahmood

Session-based recommendation systems suggest relevant items to users by modeling user behavior and preferences using short-term anonymous sessions. Existing methods leverage Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that propagate and aggregate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Sai Mitheran , Abhinav Java , Surya Kant Sahu , Arshad Shaikh

Transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse domains. The key component of Transformers is self-attention, which learns the relationship between any two tokens in the input sequence. Recent studies have revealed that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Hyowon Wi , Jeongwhan Choi , Noseong Park

Convolutional Neural networks (CNN) have been the first choice of paradigm in many computer vision applications. The convolution operation however has a significant weakness which is it only operates on a local neighborhood of pixels, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Michael Yang

This paper presents a novel keypoints-based attention mechanism for visual recognition in still images. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for recognizing images with distinctive classes have shown great success, but their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Asish Bera , Zachary Wharton , Yonghuai Liu , Nik Bessis , Ardhendu Behera

In this paper, we propose an encoder-decoder neural architecture (called Channelformer) to achieve improved channel estimation for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms in downlink scenarios. The self-attention…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-10 Dianxin Luan , John Thompson

This article presents a "Hybrid Self-Attention NEAT" method to improve the original NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) algorithm in high-dimensional inputs. Although the NEAT algorithm has shown a significant result in different…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Saman Khamesian , Hamed Malek

Convolutional neural networks have been widely deployed in various application scenarios. In order to extend the applications' boundaries to some accuracy-crucial domains, researchers have been investigating approaches to boost accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Linfeng Zhang , Jiebo Song , Anni Gao , Jingwei Chen , Chenglong Bao , Kaisheng Ma

Attention-based graph neural networks have made great progress in feature matching learning. However, insight of how attention mechanism works for feature matching is lacked in the literature. In this paper, we rethink cross- and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yuxin Deng , Jiayi Ma

Convolutions operate only locally, thus failing to model global interactions. Self-attention is, however, able to learn representations that capture long-range dependencies in sequences. We propose a network architecture for audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Nathanaël Carraz Rakotonirina

Attention mechanisms in neural networks have proved useful for problems in which the input and output do not have fixed dimension. Often there exist features that are locally translation invariant and would be valuable for directing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Miltiadis Allamanis , Hao Peng , Charles Sutton

In information retrieval, learning to rank constructs a machine-based ranking model which given a query, sorts the search results by their degree of relevance or importance to the query. Neural networks have been successfully applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Baiyang Wang , Diego Klabjan