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Medical anomaly detection is a critical research area aimed at recognizing abnormal images to aid in diagnosis.Most existing methods adopt synthetic anomalies and image restoration on normal samples to detect anomaly. The unlabeled data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Zerui Zhang , Zhichao Sun , Zelong Liu , Bo Du , Rui Yu , Zhou Zhao , Yongchao Xu

We establish the universal approximation capability of single-layer, single-head self- and cross-attention mechanisms with minimal attached structures. Our key insight is to interpret single-head attention as an input domain-partition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hude Liu , Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu , Zhao Song , Han Liu

Attention layers apply a sequence-to-sequence mapping whose parameters depend on the pairwise interactions of the input elements. However, without any structural assumptions, memory and compute scale quadratically with the sequence length.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Evgenii Egorov , Hanno Ackermann , Markus Nagel , Hong Cai

We present a new manifold learning algorithm that takes a set of data points lying on or near a lower dimensional manifold as input, possibly with noise, and outputs a simplicial complex that fits the data and the manifold. We have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-09-17 Thomas Hunt , Arthur J. Krener

Attention networks show promise for both vision and language tasks, by emphasizing relationships between constituent elements through weighting functions. Such elements could be regions in an image output by a region proposal network, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Chu Wang , Babak Samari , Vladimir Kim , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Kaleem Siddiqi

In this paper we propose a neural network model with a novel Sequential Attention layer that extends soft attention by assigning weights to words in an input sequence in a way that takes into account not just how well that word matches a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Sebastian Brarda , Philip Yeres , Samuel R. Bowman

Modern neural networks are often augmented with an attention mechanism, which tells the network where to focus within the input. We propose in this paper a new framework for sparse and structured attention, building upon a smoothed max…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-26 Vlad Niculae , Mathieu Blondel

Humans excel at abstracting data and constructing \emph{reusable} concepts, a capability lacking in current continual learning systems. The field of object-centric learning addresses this by developing abstract representations, or slots,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Vihang Patil , Andreas Radler , Daniel Klotz , Sepp Hochreiter

The past two decades have seen significant successes in our understanding of complex networked systems, from the mapping of real-world social, biological and technological networks to the establishment of generative models recovering their…

Transformer hugely benefits from its key design of the multi-head self-attention network (SAN), which extracts information from various perspectives through transforming the given input into different subspaces. However, its simple linear…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Sufeng Duan , Juncheng Cao , Hai Zhao

Attention networks in multimodal learning provide an efficient way to utilize given visual information selectively. However, the computational cost to learn attention distributions for every pair of multimodal input channels is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Jin-Hwa Kim , Jaehyun Jun , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Self-attention networks (SAN) have attracted a lot of interests due to their high parallelization and strong performance on a variety of NLP tasks, e.g. machine translation. Due to the lack of recurrence structure such as recurrent neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Baosong Yang , Longyue Wang , Derek F. Wong , Lidia S. Chao , Zhaopeng Tu

For fine-grained visual classification, objects usually share similar geometric structure but present variant local appearance and different pose. Therefore, localizing and extracting discriminative local features play a crucial role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Tao Hu , Jizheng Xu , Cong Huang , Honggang Qi , Qingming Huang , Yan Lu

Liver tumor segmentation plays an important role in hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis and surgical planning. In this paper, we propose a novel Semantic Feature Attention Network (SFAN) for liver tumor segmentation from Computed Tomography…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-04 Yao Zhang , Cheng Zhong , Yang Zhang , Zhongchao Shi , Zhiqiang He

In this paper, to remedy this deficiency, we propose a Linear Attention Mechanism which is approximate to dot-product attention with much less memory and computational costs. The efficient design makes the incorporation between attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Rui Li , Jianlin Su , Chenxi Duan , Shunyi Zheng

Transformer-based architectures have become the prevailing backbone of large language models. However, the quadratic time and memory complexity of self-attention remains a fundamental obstacle to efficient long-context modeling. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yutao Sun , Zhenyu Li , Yike Zhang , Tengyu Pan , Bowen Dong , Yuyi Guo , Jianyong Wang

While the self-attention mechanism has been widely used in a wide variety of tasks, it has the unfortunate property of a quadratic cost with respect to the input length, which makes it difficult to deal with long inputs. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Xiaoya Li , Yuxian Meng , Mingxin Zhou , Qinghong Han , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li

Training large-scale deep neural networks effectively and stably is essential for applying deep learning across various fields. However, conventional methods, which rely on training a single large network, often encounter challenges such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Wonyong Cho , Taemin Kim , Jungmin Kim , Jeong-Rae Kim , Sung Hoon Jung

Simplicial complexes can be viewed as high dimensional generalizations of graphs that explicitly encode multi-way ordered relations between vertices at different resolutions, all at once. This concept is central towards detection of higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Alexandros Dimitrios Keros , Vidit Nanda , Kartic Subr

Traditional graph neural networks (GNNs) lack scalability and lose individual node characteristics due to over-smoothing, especially in the case of deeper networks. This results in sub-optimal feature representation, affecting the model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shikhar Vashistha , Neetesh Kumar