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Transformers are extremely successful machine learning models whose mathematical properties remain poorly understood. Here, we rigorously characterize the behavior of transformers with hardmax self-attention and normalization sublayers as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Albert Alcalde , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Enrique Zuazua

Transformer design is the de facto standard for natural language processing tasks. The success of the transformer design in natural language processing has lately piqued the interest of researchers in the domain of computer vision. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Md Sohag Mia , Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Abdu Naim , Abdullah Al Bary Voban , Md Shariful Islam

While convolutional neural networks have shown a tremendous impact on various computer vision tasks, they generally demonstrate limitations in explicitly modeling long-range dependencies due to the intrinsic locality of the convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Guanglei Yang , Hao Tang , Mingli Ding , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Human decision-making often relies on visual information from multiple perspectives or views. In contrast, machine learning-based object recognition utilizes information from a single image of the object. However, the information conveyed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mona Alzahrani , Muhammad Usman , Salma Kammoun , Saeed Anwar , Tarek Helmy

Transformer has been considered the dominating neural architecture in NLP and CV, mostly under supervised settings. Recently, a similar surge of using Transformers has appeared in the domain of reinforcement learning (RL), but it is faced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Wenzhe Li , Hao Luo , Zichuan Lin , Chongjie Zhang , Zongqing Lu , Deheng Ye

Automatic synthesis of high quality 3D shapes is an ongoing and challenging area of research. While several data-driven methods have been proposed that make use of neural networks to generate 3D shapes, none of them reach the level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Isaak Lim , Moritz Ibing , Leif Kobbelt

Transformer model architectures have garnered immense interest lately due to their effectiveness across a range of domains like language, vision and reinforcement learning. In the field of natural language processing for example,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yi Tay , Mostafa Dehghani , Dara Bahri , Donald Metzler

With Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly permeating various aspects of society, including healthcare, the adoption of the Transformers neural network architecture is rapidly changing many applications. Transformer is a type of deep…

In this paper, we propose 3D point-capsule networks, an auto-encoder designed to process sparse 3D point clouds while preserving spatial arrangements of the input data. 3D capsule networks arise as a direct consequence of our novel unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Yongheng Zhao , Tolga Birdal , Haowen Deng , Federico Tombari

3D point cloud segmentation has made tremendous progress in recent years. Most current methods focus on aggregating local features, but fail to directly model long-range dependencies. In this paper, we propose Stratified Transformer that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xin Lai , Jianhui Liu , Li Jiang , Liwei Wang , Hengshuang Zhao , Shu Liu , Xiaojuan Qi , Jiaya Jia

3D point cloud is an efficient and flexible representation of 3D structures. Recently, neural networks operating on point clouds have shown superior performance on 3D understanding tasks such as shape classification and part segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Wentao Yuan , David Held , Christoph Mertz , Martial Hebert

Acquisition and processing of point clouds (PCs) is a crucial enabler for many emerging applications reliant on 3D spatial data, such as robot navigation, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality. In most scenarios, PCs acquired by remote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Yulin Shao , Chenghong Bian , Li Yang , Qianqian Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Deniz Gunduz

Modern depth sensors such as LiDAR operate by sweeping laser-beams across the scene, resulting in a point cloud with notable 1D curve-like structures. In this work, we introduce a new point cloud processing scheme and backbone, called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Colton Stearns , Davis Rempe , Jiateng Liu , Alex Fu , Sebastien Mascha , Jeong Joon Park , Despoina Paschalidou , Leonidas J. Guibas

Point clouds provide a flexible and natural representation usable in countless applications such as robotics or self-driving cars. Recently, deep neural networks operating on raw point cloud data have shown promising results on supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Jonathan Sauder , Bjarne Sievers

Transformers were initially introduced for natural language processing (NLP) tasks, but fast they were adopted by most deep learning fields, including computer vision. They measure the relationships between pairs of input tokens (words in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Robin Courant , Maika Edberg , Nicolas Dufour , Vicky Kalogeiton

As 3D point clouds become the representation of choice for multiple vision and graphics applications, the ability to synthesize or reconstruct high-resolution, high-fidelity point clouds becomes crucial. Despite the recent success of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Guandao Yang , Xun Huang , Zekun Hao , Ming-Yu Liu , Serge Belongie , Bharath Hariharan

Vision transformers are emerging as a powerful tool to solve computer vision problems. Recent techniques have also proven the efficacy of transformers beyond the image domain to solve numerous video-related tasks. Among those, human action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Anwaar Ulhaq , Naveed Akhtar , Ganna Pogrebna , Ajmal Mian

Deep learning has successfully solved a wide range of tasks in 2D vision as a dominant AI technique. Recently, deep learning on 3D point clouds is becoming increasingly popular for addressing various tasks in this field. Despite remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Hanieh Naderi , Ivan V. Bajić

Point cloud is an important type of 3D representation. However, directly applying convolutions on point clouds is challenging due to the sparse, irregular and unordered data structure. In this paper, we propose a novel Interpolated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Jiageng Mao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Modern 3D semantic instance segmentation approaches predominantly rely on specialized voting mechanisms followed by carefully designed geometric clustering techniques. Building on the successes of recent Transformer-based methods for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jonas Schult , Francis Engelmann , Alexander Hermans , Or Litany , Siyu Tang , Bastian Leibe