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Token representation strategies within large-scale neural architectures often rely on contextually refined embeddings, yet conventional approaches seldom encode structured relationships explicitly within token interactions. Self-attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-27 James Blades , Frederick Somerfield , William Langley , Susan Everingham , Maurice Witherington

Vision transformers have achieved significant improvements on various vision tasks but their quadratic interactions between tokens significantly reduce computational efficiency. Many pruning methods have been proposed to remove redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Sifan Long , Zhen Zhao , Jimin Pi , Shengsheng Wang , Jingdong Wang

Transformers have demonstrated great potential in computer vision tasks. To avoid dense computations of self-attentions in high-resolution visual data, some recent Transformer models adopt a hierarchical design, where self-attentions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jinpeng Li , Yichao Yan , Shengcai Liao , Xiaokang Yang , Ling Shao

In recent years, simultaneous learning of multiple dense prediction tasks with partially annotated label data has emerged as an important research area. Previous works primarily focus on leveraging cross-task relations or conducting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Jingdong Zhang , Hanrong Ye , Xin Li , Wenping Wang , Dan Xu

Saliency methods provide post-hoc model interpretation by attributing input features to the model outputs. Current methods mainly achieve this using a single input sample, thereby failing to answer input-independent inquiries about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Naveed Akhtar , Mohammad A. A. K. Jalwana

This paper proposes a novel deep subspace clustering approach which uses convolutional autoencoders to transform input images into new representations lying on a union of linear subspaces. The first contribution of our work is to insert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Fariba Zohrizadeh , Farhad Kamangar

This paper proposes a novel transformer-based framework that aims to enhance weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) by generating accurate class-specific object localization maps as pseudo labels. Building upon the observation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Lian Xu , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Hamid Laga , Wanli Ouyang , Dan Xu

The Transformer architecture has achieved tremendous success in natural language processing, computer vision, and scientific computing through its self-attention mechanism. However, its core components-positional encoding and attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Xianshuai Shi , Jianfeng Zhu , Leibo Liu

Vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved promising results on a variety of Computer Vision tasks, however their quadratic complexity in the number of input tokens has limited their application specially in resource-constrained settings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Wentao Zhu

Visual place recognition (VPR) is typically regarded as a specific image retrieval task, whose core lies in representing images as global descriptors. Over the past decade, dominant VPR methods (e.g., NetVLAD) have followed a paradigm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Feng Lu , Tong Jin , Canming Ye , Yunpeng Liu , Xiangyuan Lan , Chun Yuan

Vision Transformer has demonstrated impressive success across various vision tasks. However, its heavy computation cost, which grows quadratically with respect to the token sequence length, largely limits its power in handling large feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Sucheng Ren , Xingyi Yang , Songhua Liu , Xinchao Wang

The growing capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced tasks like chart understanding. However, these models often suffer from hallucinations, where generated text sequences conflict with the provided visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Manan Suri , Puneet Mathur , Nedim Lipka , Franck Dernoncourt , Ryan A. Rossi , Dinesh Manocha

Self-attention weights and their transformed variants have been the main source of information for analyzing token-to-token interactions in Transformer-based models. But despite their ease of interpretation, these weights are not faithful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Hosein Mohebbi , Willem Zuidema , Grzegorz Chrupała , Afra Alishahi

Learning representations on large-sized graphs is a long-standing challenge due to the inter-dependence nature involved in massive data points. Transformers, as an emerging class of foundation encoders for graph-structured data, have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Qitian Wu , Wentao Zhao , Chenxiao Yang , Hengrui Zhang , Fan Nie , Haitian Jiang , Yatao Bian , Junchi Yan

We introduce the Graded Transformer framework, a new class of sequence models that embeds algebraic inductive biases through grading transformations on vector spaces. Extending Graded Neural Networks (GNNs), we propose two architectures:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Tony Shaska

To understand how deep neural networks perform classification predictions, recent research attention has been focusing on developing techniques to offer desirable explanations. However, most existing methods cannot be easily applied for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yuan-Chia Cheng , Zu-Yun Shiau , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Convolution neural networks (CNNs) have succeeded in compressive image sensing. However, due to the inductive bias of locality and weight sharing, the convolution operations demonstrate the intrinsic limitations in modeling the long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Dongjie Ye , Zhangkai Ni , Hanli Wang , Jian Zhang , Shiqi Wang , Sam Kwong

In this paper, we propose a method using the fusion of CNN and transformer structure to improve image classification performance. In the case of CNN, information about a local area on an image can be extracted well, but there is a limit to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Keong Hun Choi , Jin Woo Kim , Yao Wang , Jong Eun Ha

We establish connections between the Transformer architecture, originally introduced for natural language processing, and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for representation learning on graphs. We show how Transformers can be viewed as message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Chaitanya K. Joshi

Graph Transformers (GTs) have demonstrated great effectiveness across various graph analytical tasks. However, the existing GTs focus on training and testing graph data originated from the same distribution, but fail to generalize under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tianyin Liao , Ziwei Zhang , Yufei Sun , Chunyu Hu , Jianxin Li