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Standard Transformers have a fixed computational depth, fundamentally limiting their ability to generalize to tasks requiring variable-depth reasoning, such as multi-hop graph traversal or nested logic. We propose a depth-recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hung-Hsuan Chen

We study a novel language model architecture that is capable of scaling test-time computation by implicitly reasoning in latent space. Our model works by iterating a recurrent block, thereby unrolling to arbitrary depth at test-time. This…

What is the computational model behind a Transformer? Where recurrent neural networks have direct parallels in finite state machines, allowing clear discussion and thought around architecture variants or trained models, Transformers have no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Gail Weiss , Yoav Goldberg , Eran Yahav

Sequence-to-sequence models have become central in Artificial Intelligence, particularly following the introduction of the transformer architecture. While initially developed for Natural Language Processing, these models have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Daniel Gallo Fernández

The integration of terahertz communications and ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output (UM-MIMO) systems in 6G networks is motivated by their ability to enable unprecedented data rates, mitigate spectrum congestion, and enhance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Dmitry Artemasov , Alexander Shmatok , Kirill Andreev , Alexey Frolov , Manjesh K. Hanawal , Nikola Zlatanov

Recurrent neural networks are effective models to process sequences. However, they are unable to learn long-term dependencies because of their inherent sequential nature. As a solution, Vaswani et al. introduced the Transformer, a model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Quentin Fournier , Gaétan Marceau Caron , Daniel Aloise

The current leading computer vision models are typically feed forward neural models, in which the output of one computational block is passed to the next one sequentially. This is in sharp contrast to the organization of the primate visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Barak Battash , Lior Wolf

Deep autoregressive sequence-to-sequence models have demonstrated impressive performance across a wide variety of tasks in recent years. While common architecture classes such as recurrent, convolutional, and self-attention networks make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Mitchell Stern , Noam Shazeer , Jakob Uszkoreit

Transformers are central to recent successes in natural language processing and computer vision. Transformers have a mostly uniform backbone where layers alternate between feed-forward and self-attention in order to build a deep network.…

This paper presents an efficient speech enhancement (SE) approach that reuses a processing block repeatedly instead of conventional stacking. Rather than increasing the number of blocks for learning deep latent representations, repeating a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Jangyeon Kim , Ui-Hyeop Shin , Jaehyun Ko , Hyung-Min Park

We propose Token Turing Machines (TTM), a sequential, autoregressive Transformer model with memory for real-world sequential visual understanding. Our model is inspired by the seminal Neural Turing Machine, and has an external memory…

Cross-modal retrieval is gaining increasing efficacy and interest from the research community, thanks to large-scale training, novel architectural and learning designs, and its application in LLMs and multimodal LLMs. In this paper, we move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Davide Caffagni , Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

A longstanding challenge for the Machine Learning community is the one of developing models that are capable of processing and learning from very long sequences of data. The outstanding results of Transformers-based networks (e.g., Large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Matteo Tiezzi , Michele Casoni , Alessandro Betti , Tommaso Guidi , Marco Gori , Stefano Melacci

Transformers have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in speech separation. These models, however, are computationally demanding and require a lot of learnable parameters. This paper explores Transformer-based speech separation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Luca Della Libera , Cem Subakan , Mirco Ravanelli , Samuele Cornell , Frédéric Lepoutre , François Grondin

We introduce the Autoregressive Block-Based Iterative Encoder (AbbIE), a novel recursive generalization of the encoder-only Transformer architecture, which achieves better perplexity than a standard Transformer and allows for the dynamic…

Transformers have reached remarkable success in sequence modeling. However, these models have efficiency issues as they need to store all the history token-level representations as memory. We present Memformer, an efficient neural network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Qingyang Wu , Zhenzhong Lan , Kun Qian , Jing Gu , Alborz Geramifard , Zhou Yu

The Transformer architecture has led to significant gains in machine translation. However, most studies focus on only sentence-level translation without considering the context dependency within documents, leading to the inadequacy of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yukun Feng , Feng Li , Ziang Song , Boyuan Zheng , Philipp Koehn

Recurrent neural networks are a powerful tool for modeling sequential data, but the dependence of each timestep's computation on the previous timestep's output limits parallelism and makes RNNs unwieldy for very long sequences. We introduce…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-22 James Bradbury , Stephen Merity , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

With the success of language pretraining, it is highly desirable to develop more efficient architectures of good scalability that can exploit the abundant unlabeled data at a lower cost. To improve the efficiency, we examine the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Zihang Dai , Guokun Lai , Yiming Yang , Quoc V. Le

In recent studies, linear recurrent neural networks (LRNNs) have achieved Transformer-level performance in natural language and long-range modeling, while offering rapid parallel training and constant inference cost. With the resurgence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ting-Han Fan , Ta-Chung Chi , Alexander I. Rudnicky