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Attention mechanisms have improved the performance of NLP tasks while allowing models to remain explainable. Self-attention is currently widely used, however interpretability is difficult due to the numerous attention distributions. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Khalil Mrini , Franck Dernoncourt , Quan Tran , Trung Bui , Walter Chang , Ndapa Nakashole

The recurrent neural networks (RNN) can be used to solve the sequence to sequence problem, where both the input and the output have sequential structures. Usually there are some implicit relations between the structures. However, it is hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Feng Wang , David M. J. Tax

Deep neural networks can be powerful tools, but require careful application-specific design to ensure that the most informative relationships in the data are learnable. In this paper, we apply deep neural networks to the nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Matthew A. Wright , Simon F. G. Ehlers , Roberto Horowitz

Attention mechanisms have become a popular component in deep neural networks, yet there has been little examination of how different influencing factors and methods for computing attention from these factors affect performance. Toward a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Xizhou Zhu , Dazhi Cheng , Zheng Zhang , Stephen Lin , Jifeng Dai

This paper presents experiments extending the work of Ba et al. (2014) on recurrent neural models for attention into less constrained visual environments, specifically fine-grained categorization on the Stanford Dogs data set. In this work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Pierre Sermanet , Andrea Frome , Esteban Real

We study the design of learning architectures for behavioural planning in a dense traffic setting. Such architectures should deal with a varying number of nearby vehicles, be invariant to the ordering chosen to describe them, while staying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Edouard Leurent , Jean Mercat

Monitoring the effects of the chemotherapeutic agent Taxol at the cellular level is critical for both clinical evaluation and biomedical research. However, existing detection methods require specialized equipment, skilled personnel, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Sean Fletcher , Gabby Scott , Douglas Currie , Xin Zhang , Yuqi Song , Bruce MacLeod

Neural language models are becoming the prevailing methodology for the tasks of query answering, text classification, disambiguation, completion and translation. Commonly comprised of hundreds of millions of parameters, these neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Blaž Škrlj , Nika Eržen , Shane Sheehan , Saturnino Luz , Marko Robnik-Šikonja , Senja Pollak

In this work, we aim to predict human eye fixation with view-free scenes based on an end-to-end deep learning architecture. Although Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have made substantial improvement on human attention prediction, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Wenguan Wang , Jianbing Shen

Attention models are typically learned by optimizing one of three standard loss functions that are variously called -- soft attention, hard attention, and latent variable marginal likelihood (LVML) attention. All three paradigms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Rahul Vashisht , Harish G. Ramaswamy

Cloze-style queries are representative problems in reading comprehension. Over the past few months, we have seen much progress that utilizing neural network approach to solve Cloze-style questions. In this paper, we present a novel model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Yiming Cui , Zhipeng Chen , Si Wei , Shijin Wang , Ting Liu , Guoping Hu

In-context learning based on attention models is examined for data with categorical outcomes, with inference in such models viewed from the perspective of functional gradient descent (GD). We develop a network composed of attention blocks,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-08 Aaron T. Wang , William Convertino , Xiang Cheng , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

In this work we propose a novel attention-based neural network model for the task of fine-grained entity type classification that unlike previously proposed models recursively composes representations of entity mention contexts. Our model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Sonse Shimaoka , Pontus Stenetorp , Kentaro Inui , Sebastian Riedel

The success of Transformer language models is widely credited to their dot-product attention mechanism, which interweaves a set of key design principles: mixing information across positions (enabling multi-token interactions),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Huiyin Xue , Nafise Sadat Moosavi , Nikolaos Aletras

Modern deep learning approaches have achieved groundbreaking performance in modeling and classifying sequential data. Specifically, attention networks constitute the state-of-the-art paradigm for capturing long temporal dynamics. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Harris Partaourides , Kostantinos Papadamou , Nicolas Kourtellis , Ilias Leontiadis , Sotirios Chatzis

Knowing which words have been attended to in previous time steps while generating a translation is a rich source of information for predicting what words will be attended to in the future. We improve upon the attention model of Bahdanau et…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Zichao Yang , Zhiting Hu , Yuntian Deng , Chris Dyer , Alex Smola

Decoding brain cognitive states from neuroimaging signals is an important topic in neuroscience. In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been recruited for multiple brain state decoding and achieved good performance. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Zhoufan Jiang , Yanming Wang , ChenWei Shi , Yueyang Wu , Rongjie Hu , Shishuo Chen , Sheng Hu , Xiaoxiao Wang , Bensheng Qiu

More often than not in benchmark supervised ML, tabular data is flat, i.e. consists of a single $m \times d$ (rows, columns) file, but cases abound in the real world where observations are described by a set of tables with structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Mathieu Guillame-Bert , Richard Nock

Attention is an important cognition process of humans, which helps humans concentrate on critical information during their perception and learning. However, although many machine learning models can remember information of data, they have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Guoqiang Zhong , Xin Lin , Kang Chen , Qingyang Li , Kaizhu Huang

Deep neural networks are a key component of behavior prediction and motion generation for self-driving cars. One of their main drawbacks is a lack of transparency: they should provide easy to interpret rationales for what triggers certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jinkyu Kim , Mayank Bansal