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Accurate 3D lane segment detection and topology reasoning are critical for structured online map construction in autonomous driving. Recent transformer-based approaches formulate this task as query-based set prediction, yet largely inherit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Danny Abraham , Nikhil Kamalkumar Advani , Arun Das , Nikil Dutt

Despite their dominance in vision and language, deep neural networks often underperform relative to tree-based models on tabular data. To bridge this gap, we incorporate five key inductive biases into deep learning: robustness to irrelevant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-24 Kry Yik Chau Lui , Cheng Chi , Kishore Basu , Yanshuai Cao

There has been great progress in unifying various table-to-text tasks using a single encoder-decoder model trained via multi-task learning (Xie et al., 2022). However, existing methods typically encode task information with a simple dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jifan Chen , Yuhao Zhang , Lan Liu , Rui Dong , Xinchi Chen , Patrick Ng , William Yang Wang , Zhiheng Huang

TabPFN has emerged as a promising in-context learning model for tabular data, capable of directly predicting the labels of test samples given labeled training examples. It has demonstrated competitive performance, particularly on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Si-Yang Liu , Han-Jia Ye

Data organized in tabular format is ubiquitous in real-world applications, and users often craft tables with biased feature definitions and flexibly set prediction targets of their interests. Thus, a rapid development of a robust,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Jintai Chen , Jiahuan Yan , Qiyuan Chen , Danny Ziyi Chen , Jian Wu , Jimeng Sun

What structural inductive bias helps transformers reason over knowledge graphs? Through controlled ablations of a minimal transformer modification with four independently removable components (sparse adjacency masking, edge-type biases,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jonas Petersen , Camilla Mazzoleni , Gian-Alessandro Lombardi , Federico Martelli , Riccardo Maggioni

When trained on language data, do transformers learn some arbitrary computation that utilizes the full capacity of the architecture or do they learn a simpler, tree-like computation, hypothesized to underlie compositional meaning systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Shikhar Murty , Pratyusha Sharma , Jacob Andreas , Christopher D. Manning

Table structure recognition is a crucial part of document image analysis domain. Its difficulty lies in the need to parse the physical coordinates and logical indices of each cell at the same time. However, the existing methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Zengyuan Guo , Yuechen Yu , Pengyuan Lv , Chengquan Zhang , Haojie Li , Zhihui Wang , Kun Yao , Jingtuo Liu , Jingdong Wang

Transformers achieve promising performance in document understanding because of their high effectiveness and still suffer from quadratic computational complexity dependency on the sequence length. General efficient transformers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Mingliang Zhai , Yulin Li , Xiameng Qin , Chen Yi , Qunyi Xie , Chengquan Zhang , Kun Yao , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

We present Laneformer, a conceptually simple yet powerful transformer-based architecture tailored for lane detection that is a long-standing research topic for visual perception in autonomous driving. The dominant paradigms rely on purely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jianhua Han , Xiajun Deng , Xinyue Cai , Zhen Yang , Hang Xu , Chunjing Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Spreadsheet manipulation software are widely used for data management and analysis of tabular data, yet the creation of conditional formatting (CF) rules remains a complex task requiring technical knowledge and experience with specific…

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Time-series classification is one of the most frequently performed tasks in industrial data science, and one of the most widely used data representation in the industrial setting is tabular representation. In this work, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Sharath M Shankaranarayana , Davor Runje

Table Question Answering (Table QA) in real-world settings must operate over both structured databases and semi-structured tables containing textual fields. However, existing benchmarks are tied to fixed data formats and have not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yue Zhang , Seiji Maekawa , Nikita Bhutani

The study of representations is of fundamental importance to any form of communication, and our ability to exploit them effectively is paramount. This article presents a novel theory -- Representational Systems Theory -- that is designed to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Daniel Raggi , Gem Stapleton , Mateja Jamnik , Aaron Stockdill , Grecia Garcia Garcia , Peter C-H. Cheng

End-to-end text spotting is a vital computer vision task that aims to integrate scene text detection and recognition into a unified framework. Typical methods heavily rely on Region-of-Interest (RoI) operations to extract local features and…

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Attentional mechanisms are order-invariant. Positional encoding is a crucial component to allow attention-based deep model architectures such as Transformer to address sequences or images where the position of information matters. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Yang Li , Si Si , Gang Li , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Samy Bengio

Decoding in a Transformer based language model is inherently sequential as a token's embedding needs to pass through all the layers in the network before the generation of the next token can begin. In this work, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Dylan Cutler , Arun Kandoor , Nishanth Dikkala , Nikunj Saunshi , Xin Wang , Rina Panigrahy

Structured data summarization involves generation of natural language summaries from structured input data. In this work, we consider summarizing structured data occurring in the form of tables as they are prevalent across a wide variety of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Parag Jain , Anirban Laha , Karthik Sankaranarayanan , Preksha Nema , Mitesh M. Khapra , Shreyas Shetty

Paralinguistic speech processing is important in addressing many issues, such as sentiment and neurocognitive disorder analyses. Recently, Transformer has achieved remarkable success in the natural language processing field and has…

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