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A longstanding challenge for the Machine Learning community is the one of developing models that are capable of processing and learning from very long sequences of data. The outstanding results of Transformers-based networks (e.g., Large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Matteo Tiezzi , Michele Casoni , Alessandro Betti , Tommaso Guidi , Marco Gori , Stefano Melacci

Deploying transformer models in practice is challenging due to their inference cost, which scales quadratically with input sequence length. To address this, we present a novel Learned Token Pruning (LTP) method which adaptively removes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Sehoon Kim , Sheng Shen , David Thorsley , Amir Gholami , Woosuk Kwon , Joseph Hassoun , Kurt Keutzer

The prevalent approach to sequence to sequence learning maps an input sequence to a variable length output sequence via recurrent neural networks. We introduce an architecture based entirely on convolutional neural networks. Compared to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Jonas Gehring , Michael Auli , David Grangier , Denis Yarats , Yann N. Dauphin

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

Deep neural networks have shown excellent prospects in speech separation tasks. However, obtaining good results while keeping a low model complexity remains challenging in real-world applications. In this paper, we provide a bio-inspired…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Kai Li , Runxuan Yang , Xiaolin Hu

Transformers have emerged as a powerful tool for a broad range of natural language processing tasks. A key component that drives the impressive performance of Transformers is the self-attention mechanism that encodes the influence or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yunyang Xiong , Zhanpeng Zeng , Rudrasis Chakraborty , Mingxing Tan , Glenn Fung , Yin Li , Vikas Singh

Pretrained transformer models have demonstrated remarkable performance across various natural language processing tasks. These models leverage the attention mechanism to capture long- and short-range dependencies in the sequence. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Qingru Zhang , Dhananjay Ram , Cole Hawkins , Sheng Zha , Tuo Zhao

Graph-structured data plays a vital role in numerous domains, such as social networks, citation networks, commonsense reasoning graphs and knowledge graphs. While graph neural networks have been employed for graph processing, recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wooyoung Kim , Byungyoon Park , Wooju Kim

Convolution models with long filters have demonstrated state-of-the-art reasoning abilities in many long-sequence tasks but lag behind the most optimized Transformers in wall-clock time. A major bottleneck is the Fast Fourier Transform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Daniel Y. Fu , Hermann Kumbong , Eric Nguyen , Christopher Ré

As pretrained transformer language models continue to achieve state-of-the-art performance, the Natural Language Processing community has pushed for advances in model compression and efficient attention mechanisms to address high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Nathan Brown , Ashton Williamson , Tahj Anderson , Logan Lawrence

The attention mechanism has demonstrated remarkable potential in sequence modeling, exemplified by its successful application in natural language processing with models such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Bowen Zhao , Huanlai Xing , Zhiwen Xiao , Jincheng Peng , Li Feng , Xinhan Wang , Rong Qu , Hui Li

As a pioneering work exploring transformer architecture for 3D point cloud understanding, Point Transformer achieves impressive results on multiple highly competitive benchmarks. In this work, we analyze the limitations of the Point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Xiaoyang Wu , Yixing Lao , Li Jiang , Xihui Liu , Hengshuang Zhao

Graph neural networks are powerful architectures for structured datasets. However, current methods struggle to represent long-range dependencies. Scaling the depth or width of GNNs is insufficient to broaden receptive fields as larger GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhanghao Wu , Paras Jain , Matthew A. Wright , Azalia Mirhoseini , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica

We study length generalization in sequence models on a composite problem involving both state tracking and associative recall. Prior work finds that recurrent networks handle state tracking well but struggle with recall, whereas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Buu Phan , Reza Ebrahimi , Sanjay Haresh , Roland Memisevic

Transformer-based language models such as BERT have achieved the state-of-the-art performance on various NLP tasks, but are computationally prohibitive. A recent line of works use various heuristics to successively shorten sequence length…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xin Huang , Ashish Khetan , Rene Bidart , Zohar Karnin

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with dilated filters such as the Wavenet or the Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN) have shown good results in a variety of sequence modelling tasks. However, efficiently modelling long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Daniel Stoller , Mi Tian , Sebastian Ewert , Simon Dixon

Modeling 3D dynamics is a fundamental problem in multi-body systems across scientific and engineering domains and has important practical implications in object trajectory prediction and simulation. While recent GNN-based approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Kai Yang , Yuqi Huang , Junheng Tao , Wanyu Wang , Qitian Wu

Sequence modeling has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on natural language and document understanding tasks. However, it is challenging to correctly serialize tokens in form-like documents in practice due to their variety of layout…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Chen-Yu Lee , Chun-Liang Li , Timothy Dozat , Vincent Perot , Guolong Su , Nan Hua , Joshua Ainslie , Renshen Wang , Yasuhisa Fujii , Tomas Pfister

In recent years, the sequence-to-sequence learning neural networks with attention mechanism have achieved great progress. However, there are still challenges, especially for Neural Machine Translation (NMT), such as lower translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Si Zuo , Zhimin Xu

Pre-trained language models (e.g., BERT (Devlin et al., 2018) and its variants) have achieved remarkable success in varieties of NLP tasks. However, these models usually consist of hundreds of millions of parameters which brings challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Wenhui Wang , Furu Wei , Li Dong , Hangbo Bao , Nan Yang , Ming Zhou