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Attention networks have proven to be an effective approach for embedding categorical inference within a deep neural network. However, for many tasks we may want to model richer structural dependencies without abandoning end-to-end training.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Yoon Kim , Carl Denton , Luong Hoang , Alexander M. Rush

Deep neural networks are composed of layers of parametrised linear operations intertwined with non linear activations. In basic models, such as the multi-layer perceptron, a linear layer operates on a simple input vector embedding of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Jean-Marc Andreoli

In this work, we present the first general logic of attention. Attention is a powerful cognitive ability that allows agents to focus on potentially complex information, such as logically structured propositions, higher-order beliefs, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Gaia Belardinelli , Thomas Bolander , Sebastian Watzl

Attention is the crucial cognitive ability that limits and selects what information we observe. Previous work by Bolander et al. (2016) proposes a model of attention based on dynamic epistemic logic (DEL) where agents are either fully…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Gaia Belardinelli , Thomas Bolander

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

Large pre-trained neural networks such as BERT have had great recent success in NLP, motivating a growing body of research investigating what aspects of language they are able to learn from unlabeled data. Most recent analysis has focused…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Kevin Clark , Urvashi Khandelwal , Omer Levy , Christopher D. Manning

In this paper we explore deep learning models with memory component or attention mechanism for question answering task. We combine and compare three models, Neural Machine Translation, Neural Turing Machine, and Memory Networks for a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Yang Yu , Wei Zhang , Chung-Wei Hang , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou

Existing attention mechanisms are trained to attend to individual items in a collection (the memory) with a predefined, fixed granularity, e.g., a word token or an image grid. We propose area attention: a way to attend to areas in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Yang Li , Lukasz Kaiser , Samy Bengio , Si Si

Attention has long been proposed by psychologists as important for effectively dealing with the enormous sensory stimulus available in the neocortex. Inspired by the visual attention models in computational neuroscience and the need of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Yichuan Tang , Nitish Srivastava , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

We introduce a category-theoretic diagrammatic formalism in order to systematically relate and reason about machine learning models. Our diagrams present architectures intuitively but without loss of essential detail, where natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Nikhil Khatri , Tuomas Laakkonen , Jonathon Liu , Vincent Wang-Maścianica

Recent machine learning models have shown that including attention as a component results in improved model accuracy and interpretability, despite the concept of attention in these approaches only loosely approximating the brain's attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Hossein Adeli , Gregory Zelinsky

Deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a data-driven method that uses multiple layers of interconnected units or neurons to learn intricate patterns and representations directly from raw input data. Empowered by this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Mohd Halim Mohd Noor , Ayokunle Olalekan Ige

Attention plays a fundamental role in both natural and artificial intelligence systems. In deep learning, attention-based neural architectures, such as transformer architectures, are widely used to tackle problems in natural language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Pierre Baldi , Roman Vershynin

Investigating deep learning language models has always been a significant research area due to the ``black box" nature of most advanced models. With the recent advancements in pre-trained language models based on transformers and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mohamad Ballout , Ulf Krumnack , Gunther Heidemann , Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

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

Attention mechanism is effective in both focusing the deep learning models on relevant features and interpreting them. However, attentions may be unreliable since the networks that generate them are often trained in a weakly-supervised…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-11 Jay Heo , Hae Beom Lee , Saehoon Kim , Juho Lee , Kwang Joon Kim , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

While attention has been an increasingly popular component in deep neural networks to both interpret and boost the performance of models, little work has examined how attention progresses to accomplish a task and whether it is reasonable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Shi Chen , Ming Jiang , Jinhui Yang , Qi Zhao

Recent advances in deep neural networks have been developed via architecture search for stronger representational power. In this work, we focus on the effect of attention in general deep neural networks. We propose a simple and effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Jongchan Park , Sanghyun Woo , Joon-Young Lee , In So Kweon

Many recent deep learning-based solutions have widely adopted the attention-based mechanism in various tasks of the NLP discipline. However, the inherent characteristics of deep learning models and the flexibility of the attention mechanism…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Dairui Liu , Derek Greene , Ruihai Dong

Attention mechanisms are ubiquitous components in neural architectures applied to natural language processing. In addition to yielding gains in predictive accuracy, attention weights are often claimed to confer interpretability, purportedly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Danish Pruthi , Mansi Gupta , Bhuwan Dhingra , Graham Neubig , Zachary C. Lipton