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In modern NLP applications, word embeddings are a crucial backbone that can be readily shared across a number of tasks. However as the text distributions change and word semantics evolve over time, the downstream applications using the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Nishtha Madaan , Prateek Chaudhury , Nishant Kumar , Srikanta Bedathur

This paper proposes a novel approach to word embeddings in Transformer models by utilizing spinors from geometric algebra. Spinors offer a rich mathematical framework capable of capturing complex relationships and transformations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Rick White

The analysis of logs is a vital activity undertaken for fault or cyber incident detection, investigation and technical forensics analysis for system and cyber resilience. The potential application of AI algorithms for Log analysis could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Jonathan Pan

We study the ability of Transformer models to learn sequences generated by Permuted Congruential Generators (PCGs), a widely used family of pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs). PCGs introduce substantial additional difficulty over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Tao Tao , Maissam Barkeshli

Data is one of the essential ingredients to power deep learning research. Small datasets, especially specific to medical institutes, bring challenges to deep learning training stage. This work aims to develop a practical deep multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Faik Aydin , Maggie Zhang , Michelle Ananda-Rajah , Gholamreza Haffari

In many real-world scenarios, data to train machine learning models becomes available over time. Unfortunately, these models struggle to continually learn new concepts without forgetting what has been learnt in the past. This phenomenon is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Beyza Ermis , Giovanni Zappella , Martin Wistuba , Aditya Rawal , Cedric Archambeau

The recent boom of linear forecasting models questions the ongoing passion for architectural modifications of Transformer-based forecasters. These forecasters leverage Transformers to model the global dependencies over temporal tokens of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Yong Liu , Tengge Hu , Haoran Zhang , Haixu Wu , Shiyu Wang , Lintao Ma , Mingsheng Long

With sequentially stacked self-attention, (optional) encoder-decoder attention, and feed-forward layers, Transformer achieves big success in natural language processing (NLP), and many variants have been proposed. Currently, almost all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Jinhua Zhu , Lijun Wu , Yingce Xia , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Tie-Yan Liu

In this paper, we present TExt Spotting TRansformers (TESTR), a generic end-to-end text spotting framework using Transformers for text detection and recognition in the wild. TESTR builds upon a single encoder and dual decoders for the joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Xiang Zhang , Yongwen Su , Subarna Tripathi , Zhuowen Tu

End-to-end text spotting is a vital computer vision task that aims to integrate scene text detection and recognition into a unified framework. Typical methods heavily rely on Region-of-Interest (RoI) operations to extract local features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yukun Zhai , Xiaoqiang Zhang , Xiameng Qin , Sanyuan Zhao , Xingping Dong , Jianbing Shen

With excellent generalization ability, self-supervised speech models have shown impressive performance on various downstream speech tasks in the pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm. However, as the growing size of pre-trained models,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-04 Mufan Sang , John H. L. Hansen

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized software engineering (SE) by enhancing software development efficiency. The advent of pre-trained models (PTMs) leveraging transfer learning has significantly advanced AI for SE. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Zixiang Xian , Rubing Huang , Dave Towey , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen

Test-time training (TTT) methods explicitly update the weights of a model to adapt to the specific test instance, and they have found success in a variety of settings, including most recently language modeling and reasoning. To demystify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Halil Alperen Gozeten , M. Emrullah Ildiz , Xuechen Zhang , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Marco Mondelli , Samet Oymak

Pre-trained transformer models have shown great promise in various natural language processing tasks, including personalized news recommendations. To harness the power of these models, we introduce Transformers4NewsRec, a new Python…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Dairui Liu , Honghui Du , Boming Yang , Neil Hurley , Aonghus Lawlor , Irene Li , Derek Greene , Ruihai Dong

Unsupervised representation learning for tweets is an important research field which helps in solving several business applications such as sentiment analysis, hashtag prediction, paraphrase detection and microblog ranking. A good tweet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Ganesh J

The Transformer is a highly successful deep learning model that has revolutionised the world of artificial neural networks, first in natural language processing and later in computer vision. This model is based on the attention mechanism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Riccardo Ughi , Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Matteucci

Pretrained transformer-based Language Models (LMs) are well-known for their ability to achieve significant improvement on NLP tasks, but their black-box nature, which leads to a lack of interpretability, has been a major concern. My…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Ximing Wen

Learning expressive representations for high-dimensional yet sparse features has been a longstanding problem in information retrieval. Though recent deep learning methods can partially solve the problem, they often fail to handle the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Kaize Ding , Albert Jiongqian Liang , Bryan Perrozi , Ting Chen , Ruoxi Wang , Lichan Hong , Ed H. Chi , Huan Liu , Derek Zhiyuan Cheng

We re-examine the situation entity (SE) classification task with varying amounts of available training data. We exploit a Transformer-based variational autoencoder to encode sentences into a lower dimensional latent space, which is used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Mehdi Rezaee , Kasra Darvish , Gaoussou Youssouf Kebe , Francis Ferraro

Using more test-time computation during language model inference, such as generating more intermediate thoughts or sampling multiple candidate answers, has proven effective in significantly improving model performance. This paper takes an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Xingwu Chen , Miao Lu , Beining Wu , Difan Zou