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The Transformer is an extremely powerful and prominent deep learning architecture. In this work, we challenge the commonly held belief in deep learning that going deeper is better, and show an alternative design approach that is building…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Jason Ross Brown , Yiren Zhao , Ilia Shumailov , Robert D Mullins

Recent neuroimaging studies have highlighted the importance of network-centric brain analysis, particularly with functional magnetic resonance imaging. The emergence of Deep Neural Networks has fostered a substantial interest in predicting…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-06 Xuan Kan , Antonio Aodong Chen Gu , Hejie Cui , Ying Guo , Carl Yang

Unlike conventional "black-box" transformers with classical self-attention mechanism, we build a lightweight and interpretable transformer-like neural net by unrolling a mixed-graph-based optimization algorithm to forecast traffic with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ji Qi , Tam Thuc Do , Mingxiao Liu , Zhuoshi Pan , Yuzhe Li , Gene Cheung , H. Vicky Zhao

Models based on the Transformer neural network architecture have seen success on a wide variety of tasks that appear to require complex "cognitive branching" -- or the ability to maintain pursuit of one goal while accomplishing others. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Aaron Traylor , Jack Merullo , Michael J. Frank , Ellie Pavlick

3D point cloud-based place recognition is highly demanded by autonomous driving in GPS-challenged environments and serves as an essential component (i.e. loop-closure detection) in lidar-based SLAM systems. This paper proposes a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Zhicheng Zhou , Cheng Zhao , Daniel Adolfsson , Songzhi Su , Yang Gao , Tom Duckett , Li Sun

Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (Graph CNNs) are generalizations of classical CNNs to handle graph data such as molecular data, point could and social networks. Current filters in graph CNNs are built for fixed and shared graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Ruoyu Li , Sheng Wang , Feiyun Zhu , Junzhou Huang

Standard Transformers excel at semantic modeling but struggle with rigid sequential logic and state tracking. Theoretical work establishes that self-attention is limited to $\AC^0$ (under hard attention) or $\TC^0$ (under soft attention),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mehryar Mohri

Transfer learning has proven to be a successful technique to train deep learning models in the domains where little training data is available. The dominant approach is to pretrain a model on a large generic dataset such as ImageNet and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Xi Yan , David Acuna , Sanja Fidler

Neural routing solvers (NRSs) that leverage deep learning to tackle vehicle routing problems have demonstrated notable potential for practical applications. By learning implicit heuristic rules from data, NRSs replace the handcrafted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Yunpeng Ba , Xi Lin , Changliang Zhou , Ruihao Zheng , Zhenkun Wang , Xinyan Liang , Zhichao Lu , Jianyong Sun , Yuhua Qian , Qingfu Zhang

Recently, deep reinforcement learning has shown promising results for learning fast heuristics to solve routing problems. Meanwhile, most of the solvers suffer from generalizing to an unseen distribution or distributions with different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Han Fang , Zhihao Song , Paul Weng , Yutong Ban

The growing use of deep learning necessitates efficient network design and deployment, making neural predictors vital for estimating attributes such as accuracy and latency. Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and transformers have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Ruihan Xu , Haokui Zhang , Yaowei Wang , Wei Zeng , Shiliang Zhang

Hypergraphs play a pivotal role in the modelling of data featuring higher-order relations involving more than two entities. Hypergraph neural networks emerge as a powerful tool for processing hypergraph-structured data, delivering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zexi Liu , Bohan Tang , Ziyuan Ye , Xiaowen Dong , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

Classic Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) often rely on manual feature engineering to extract meaningful patterns from network traffic data. However, this approach requires domain expertise and runs counter to the widely adopted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Muhammad Usman Butt , Andreas Hotho , Daniel Schlör

Memory is fundamental to intelligence, enabling learning, reasoning, and adaptability across biological and artificial systems. While Transformer architectures excel at sequence modeling, they face critical limitations in long-range context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Parsa Omidi , Xingshuai Huang , Axel Laborieux , Bahareh Nikpour , Tianyu Shi , Armaghan Eshaghi

Mass transport problems arise in many areas of machine learning whereby one wants to compute a map transporting one distribution to another. Generative modeling techniques like Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Denoising Diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Valentin De Bortoli , Iryna Korshunova , Andriy Mnih , Arnaud Doucet

We present a novel data-driven approach of learning traffic flow patterns of a transportation network given that many instances of origin to destination (OD) travel demand and link flows of the network are available. Instead of estimating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Rezaur Rahman , Samiul Hasan

Recently, many datasets have been proposed to test the systematic generalization ability of neural networks. The companion baseline Transformers, typically trained with default hyper-parameters from standard tasks, are shown to fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Róbert Csordás , Kazuki Irie , Jürgen Schmidhuber

In this paper, we study the task of source-free domain adaptation (SFDA), where the source data are not available during target adaptation. Previous works on SFDA mainly focus on aligning the cross-domain distributions. However, they ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Guanglei Yang , Hao Tang , Zhun Zhong , Mingli Ding , Ling Shao , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) sequentially process data by updating their state with each new data point, and have long been the de facto choice for sequence modeling tasks. However, their inherently sequential computation makes them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Mostafa Dehghani , Stephan Gouws , Oriol Vinyals , Jakob Uszkoreit , Łukasz Kaiser

The acquisition of large-scale physical interaction data, a critical prerequisite for modern robot learning, is severely bottlenecked by the prohibitive cost and scalability limits of human-in-the-loop collection paradigms. To break this…

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