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Scene graph representations, which form a graph of visual object nodes together with their attributes and relations, have proved useful across a variety of vision and language applications. Recent work in the area has used Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Martin Andrews , Yew Ken Chia , Sam Witteveen

Graph is a fundamental mathematical structure in characterizing relations between different objects and has been widely used on various learning tasks. Most methods implicitly assume a given graph to be accurate and complete. However, real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Xuanting Xie , Zhao Kang , Wenyu Chen

While deep learning has demonstrated impressive progress, it remains a daunting challenge to learn from hard samples as these samples are usually noisy and intricate. These hard samples play a crucial role in the optimal performance of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Qiao Xiao , Boqian Wu , Lu Yin , Christopher Neil Gadzinski , Tianjin Huang , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Decebal Constantin Mocanu

Scaling Transformers to ultra-long contexts is bottlenecked by the $O(n^2 d)$ cost of self-attention. Existing methods reduce this cost along the sequence axis through local windows, kernel approximations, or token-level sparsity, but these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yan Xie , Tiansheng Wen , Tangda Huang , Bo Chen , Chenyu You , Stefanie Jegelka , Yifei Wang

The recent literature in text classification is biased towards short text sequences (e.g., sentences or paragraphs). In real-world applications, multi-page multi-paragraph documents are common and they cannot be efficiently encoded by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Xiang Dai , Ilias Chalkidis , Sune Darkner , Desmond Elliott

Impressive performance of Transformer has been attributed to self-attention, where dependencies between entire input in a sequence are considered at every position. In this work, we reform the neural $n$-gram model, which focuses on only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Mengsay Loem , Sho Takase , Masahiro Kaneko , Naoaki Okazaki

Sparsifying the Transformer has garnered considerable interest, as training the Transformer is very computationally demanding. Prior efforts to sparsify the Transformer have either used a fixed pattern or data-driven approach to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Bokyeong Yoon , Yoonsang Han , Gordon Euhyun Moon

Structured representations like graphs and parse trees play a crucial role in many Natural Language Processing systems. In recent years, the advancements in multi-turn user interfaces necessitate the need for controlling and updating these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Xuanli He , Quan Hung Tran , Gholamreza Haffari , Walter Chang , Trung Bui , Zhe Lin , Franck Dernoncourt , Nhan Dam

We present ReHub, a novel graph transformer architecture that achieves linear complexity through an efficient reassignment technique between nodes and virtual nodes. Graph transformers have become increasingly important in graph learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tomer Borreda , Daniel Freedman , Or Litany

To capture the semantic graph structure from raw text, most existing summarization approaches are built on GNNs with a pre-trained model. However, these methods suffer from cumbersome procedures and inefficient computations for long-text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Ye Liu , Jian-Guo Zhang , Yao Wan , Congying Xia , Lifang He , Philip S. Yu

We propose a recipe on how to build a general, powerful, scalable (GPS) graph Transformer with linear complexity and state-of-the-art results on a diverse set of benchmarks. Graph Transformers (GTs) have gained popularity in the field of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ladislav Rampášek , Mikhail Galkin , Vijay Prakash Dwivedi , Anh Tuan Luu , Guy Wolf , Dominique Beaini

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful and flexible neural networks that use the naturally sparse connectivity information of the data. GNNs represent this connectivity as sparse matrices, which have lower arithmetic intensity and thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Alok Tripathy , Katherine Yelick , Aydin Buluc

Self-attention based Transformer has demonstrated the state-of-the-art performances in a number of natural language processing tasks. Self-attention is able to model long-term dependencies, but it may suffer from the extraction of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Guangxiang Zhao , Junyang Lin , Zhiyuan Zhang , Xuancheng Ren , Qi Su , Xu Sun

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as promising solutions for collaborative filtering (CF) through the modeling of user-item interaction graphs. The nucleus of existing GNN-based recommender systems involves recursive message passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Peiyan Zhang , Yuchen Yan , Xi Zhang , Chaozhuo Li , Senzhang Wang , Feiran Huang , Sunghun Kim

Point clouds obtained from capture devices or 3D reconstruction techniques are often noisy and interfere with downstream tasks. The paper aims to recover the underlying surface of noisy point clouds. We design a novel model, NoiseTrans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Guangzhe Hou , Guihe Qin , Minghui Sun , Yanhua Liang , Jie Yan , Zhonghan Zhang

Graph data, essential in fields like knowledge representation and social networks, often involves large networks with many nodes and edges. Transmitting these graphs can be highly inefficient due to their size and redundancy for specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Shujing Li , Yanhu Wang , Shuaishuai Guo , Chenyuan Feng

Self-supervised learning is currently gaining a lot of attention, as it allows neural networks to learn robust representations from large quantities of unlabeled data. Additionally, multi-task learning can further improve representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Franco Manessi , Alessandro Rozza

Graph Transformers (GTs) have recently emerged as popular alternatives to traditional message-passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), due to their theoretically superior expressiveness and impressive performance reported on standard node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yuankai Luo , Lei Shi , Xiao-Ming Wu

Transformer architectures, capable of capturing sequential dependencies in the history of user interactions, have become the dominant approach in sequential recommender systems. Despite their success, such models consider sequence elements…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Artur Gimranov , Viacheslav Yusupov , Elfat Sabitov , Tatyana Matveeva , Anton Lysenko , Ruslan Israfilov , Evgeny Frolov

In deep neural networks, better results can often be obtained by increasing the complexity of previously developed basic models. However, it is unclear whether there is a way to boost performance by decreasing the complexity of such models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Junran Wu , Shangzhe Li , Jianhao Li , Yicheng Pan , Ke Xu