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Attention based language models have become a critical component in state-of-the-art natural language processing systems. However, these models have significant computational requirements, due to long training times, dense operations and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Ivan Chelombiev , Daniel Justus , Douglas Orr , Anastasia Dietrich , Frithjof Gressmann , Alexandros Koliousis , Carlo Luschi

Transformers have had tremendous impact for several sequence related tasks, largely due to their ability to retrieve from any part of the sequence via softmax based dot-product attention. This mechanism plays a crucial role in Transformer's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Sai Surya Duvvuri , Inderjit S. Dhillon

We present the first challenge set and evaluation protocol for the analysis of gender bias in machine translation (MT). Our approach uses two recent coreference resolution datasets composed of English sentences which cast participants into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Gabriel Stanovsky , Noah A. Smith , Luke Zettlemoyer

Lane change prediction of surrounding vehicles is a key building block of path planning. The focus has been on increasing the accuracy of prediction by posing it purely as a function estimation problem at the cost of model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Oliver Scheel , Naveen Shankar Nagaraja , Loren Schwarz , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Modern computational organic chemistry is becoming increasingly data-driven. There remain a large number of important unsolved problems in this area such as product prediction given reactants, drug discovery, and metric-optimized molecule…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-10 Josh Payne , Mario Srouji , Dian Ang Yap , Vineet Kosaraju

Building AI systems, including Facial Expression Recognition (FER), involves two critical aspects: data and model design. Both components significantly influence bias and fairness in FER tasks. Issues related to bias and fairness in FER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Mohammad Mehdi Hosseini , Ali Pourramezan Fard , Mohammad H. Mahoor

The measurement of bias in machine learning often focuses on model performance across identity subgroups (such as man and woman) with respect to groundtruth labels. However, these methods do not directly measure the associations that a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Osman Aka , Ken Burke , Alex Bäuerle , Christina Greer , Margaret Mitchell

We investigate how successful bias mitigation reshapes the embedding space of encoder-only and decoder-only foundation models, offering an internal audit of model behaviour through representational analysis. Using BERT and Llama2 as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Svetoslav Nizhnichenkov , Rahul Nair , Elizabeth Daly , Brian Mac Namee

DNA sequence classification requires not only high predictive accuracy but also the ability to uncover latent site interactions, combinatorial regulation, and epistasis-like higher-order dependencies. Although the standard Transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhixuan Cao , Yishu Xu , Xuang WU

Forensic author profiling plays an important role in indicating possible profiles for suspects. Among the many automated solutions recently proposed for author profiling, transfer learning outperforms many other state-of-the-art techniques…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Esam Alzahrani , Leon Jololian

Transformer-based deep neural networks (DNNs) affected by backdoor attacks and unfairness typically exhibit anomalous attention patterns, leading to over-attend to backdoor triggers or protected attributes. Existing neuron-editing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shihao Weng , Yang Feng , Jincheng Li , Yining Yin , Xiaofei Xie , Jia Liu

Small and imbalanced datasets commonly seen in healthcare represent a challenge when training classifiers based on deep learning models. So motivated, we propose a novel framework based on BioBERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Shijing Si , Rui Wang , Jedrek Wosik , Hao Zhang , David Dov , Guoyin Wang , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

In this paper, we introduce the prior knowledge, multi-scale structure, into self-attention modules. We propose a Multi-Scale Transformer which uses multi-scale multi-head self-attention to capture features from different scales. Based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Qipeng Guo , Xipeng Qiu , Pengfei Liu , Xiangyang Xue , Zheng Zhang

Attention maps, a popular heatmap-based explanation method for Visual Question Answering (VQA), are supposed to help users understand the model by highlighting portions of the image/question used by the model to infer answers. However, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Arijit Ray , Michael Cogswell , Xiao Lin , Kamran Alipour , Ajay Divakaran , Yi Yao , Giedrius Burachas

Multi-headed attention heads are a mainstay in transformer-based models. Different methods have been proposed to classify the role of each attention head based on the relations between tokens which have high pair-wise attention. These roles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Madhura Pande , Aakriti Budhraja , Preksha Nema , Pratyush Kumar , Mitesh M. Khapra

The self-attention module is a key component of Transformer-based models, wherein each token pays attention to every other token. Recent studies have shown that these heads exhibit syntactic, semantic, or local behaviour. Some studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Madhura Pande , Aakriti Budhraja , Preksha Nema , Pratyush Kumar , Mitesh M. Khapra

This work aims to predict channels in wireless communication systems based on noisy observations, utilizing sequence-to-sequence models with attention (Seq2Seq-attn) and transformer models. Both models are adapted from natural language…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-05 Valentina Rizzello , Benedikt Böck , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

Vision Transformer (ViT) self-attention mechanism is characterized by feature collapse in deeper layers, resulting in the vanishing of low-level visual features. However, such features can be helpful to accurately represent and identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Anxhelo Diko , Danilo Avola , Marco Cascio , Luigi Cinque

Language has a profound impact on our thoughts, perceptions, and conceptions of gender roles. Gender-inclusive language is, therefore, a key tool to promote social inclusion and contribute to achieving gender equality. Consequently,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jad Doughman , Wael Khreich

When it comes to classifying child sexual abuse images, managing similar inter-class correlations and diverse intra-class correlations poses a significant challenge. Vision transformer models, unlike conventional deep convolutional network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hanxian He , Campbell Wilson , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Janis Dalins