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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Sameera Ramasinghe , Simon Lucey

NLP applications for code-mixed (CM) or mix-lingual text have gained a significant momentum recently, the main reason being the prevalence of language mixing in social media communications in multi-lingual societies like India, Mexico,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Mohsin Ali , Kandukuri Sai Teja , Sumanth Manduru , Parth Patwa , Amitava Das

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus challenges AI systems to perform abstract reasoning with minimal training data, a task intuitive for humans but demanding for machine learning models. Using CodeT5+ as a case study, we demonstrate how…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Guilherme H. Bandeira Costa , Miguel Freire , Arlindo L. Oliveira

Fourier embedding has shown great promise in removing spectral bias during neural network training. However, it can still suffer from high generalization errors, especially when the labels or measurements are noisy. We demonstrate that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Halyun Jeong , Jihun Han

Accurate predictions rely on the expressiveness power of graph deep learning frameworks like graph neural networks and graph transformers, where a positional encoding mechanism has become much more indispensable in recent state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Katherine Tieu , Dongqi Fu , Zihao Li , Ross Maciejewski , Jingrui He

Positional Encodings (PEs) are a critical component of Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs), providing the attention mechanism with important sequence-position information. One of the most popular types of encoding used today in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Federico Barbero , Alex Vitvitskyi , Christos Perivolaropoulos , Razvan Pascanu , Petar Veličković

We propose a new positional encoding method for a neural network architecture called the Transformer. Unlike the standard sinusoidal positional encoding, our approach is based on solid mathematical grounds and has a guarantee of not losing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Tsuyoshi Idé , Jokin Labaien , Pin-Yu Chen

Transformer models are permutation equivariant. To supply the order and type information of the input tokens, position and segment embeddings are usually added to the input. Recent works proposed variations of positional encodings with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Pu-Chin Chen , Henry Tsai , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Hyung Won Chung , Yin-Wen Chang , Chun-Sung Ferng

Positional encoding has become a standard component in graph learning, especially for graph Transformers and other models that must distinguish structurally similar nodes, yet its fundamental identifiability remains poorly understood. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zimo Yan , Zheng Xie , Chang Liu , Yiqin Lv , Runfan Duan

Fourier-encoded implicit neural representations (INRs) have shown strong capability in modeling continuous signals from discrete samples. However, conventional Fourier feature mappings use a fixed set of frequencies over the entire spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ligen Shi , Jun Qiu , Yuhang Zheng , Zengyu Pang , Chang Liu

Deep functional maps have recently emerged as a successful paradigm for non-rigid 3D shape correspondence tasks. An essential step in this pipeline consists in learning feature functions that are used as constraints to solve for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Souhaib Attaiki , Maks Ovsjanikov

Transformers are increasingly employed for graph data, demonstrating competitive performance in diverse tasks. To incorporate graph information into these models, it is essential to enhance node and edge features with positional encodings.…

Most approaches for semantic segmentation use only information from color cameras to parse the scenes, yet recent advancements show that using depth data allows to further improve performances. In this work, we focus on transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Francesco Barbato , Giulia Rizzoli , Pietro Zanuttigh

Transformer architectures rely on explicit position encodings in order to preserve a notion of word order. In this paper, we argue that existing work does not fully utilize position information. For example, the initial proposal of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Zhiheng Huang , Davis Liang , Peng Xu , Bing Xiang

Many positional encodings (PEs) are designed to exhibit long-term decay, based on an entrenched and long-standing inductive opinion: tokens farther away from the current position carry less relevant information. We argue that long-term…

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Recently, Transformer-like deep architectures have shown strong performance on tabular data problems. Unlike traditional models, e.g., MLP, these architectures map scalar values of numerical features to high-dimensional embeddings before…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yury Gorishniy , Ivan Rubachev , Artem Babenko

Multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have been successfully used to represent 3D shapes implicitly and compactly, by mapping 3D coordinates to the corresponding signed distance values or occupancy values. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Peng-Shuai Wang , Yang Liu , Yu-Qi Yang , Xin Tong

In this work we investigate a specific transfer learning approach for deep reinforcement learning in the context where the internal dynamics between two tasks are the same but the visual representations differ. We learn a low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Geoffrey van Driessel , Vincent Francois-Lavet

Implicit Neural Representation (INR) as a mighty representation paradigm has achieved success in various computer vision tasks recently. Due to the low-frequency bias issue of vanilla multi-layer perceptron (MLP), existing methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Kexuan Shi , Xingyu Zhou , Shuhang Gu

We present FourierMask, which employs Fourier series combined with implicit neural representations to generate instance segmentation masks. We apply a Fourier mapping (FM) to the coordinate locations and utilize the mapped features as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Hamd ul Moqeet Riaz , Nuri Benbarka , Timon Hoefer , Andreas Zell