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Referring image segmentation is a fundamental vision-language task that aims to segment out an object referred to by a natural language expression from an image. One of the key challenges behind this task is leveraging the referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Transformers serve as the foundational architecture for large language and video generation models, such as GPT, BERT, SORA and their successors. Empirical studies have demonstrated that real-world data and learning tasks exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhaiming Shen , Alex Havrilla , Rongjie Lai , Alexander Cloninger , Wenjing Liao

Transformer-based architectures have shown great success in image captioning, where object regions are encoded and then attended into the vectorial representations to guide the caption decoding. However, such vectorial representations only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Jiayi Ji , Yunpeng Luo , Xiaoshuai Sun , Fuhai Chen , Gen Luo , Yongjian Wu , Yue Gao , Rongrong Ji

Transformer model has been widely used on machine translation tasks and obtained state-of-the-art results. In this paper, we report an interesting phenomenon in its encoder-decoder multi-head attention: different attention heads of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Zewei Sun , Shujian Huang , Hao-Ran Wei , Xin-yu Dai , Jiajun Chen

Transformers have been designed for channel acquisition tasks such as channel prediction and other tasks such as precoding, while graph neural networks (GNNs) have been demonstrated to be efficient for learning a multitude of communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Yuxuan Duan , Jia Guo , Chenyang Yang

In contrast with previous approaches where information flows only towards deeper layers of a stack, we consider a multi-pass transformer (MPT) architecture in which earlier layers are allowed to process information in light of the output of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Peng Gao , Chiori Hori , Shijie Geng , Takaaki Hori , Jonathan Le Roux

We present a novel usage of Transformers to make image classification interpretable. Unlike mainstream classifiers that wait until the last fully connected layer to incorporate class information to make predictions, we investigate a…

Most deep learning methods that achieve high segmentation accuracy require deep network architectures that are too heavy and complex to run on embedded devices with limited storage and memory space. To address this issue, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Luyi Qiu , Dayu Yu , Xiaofeng Zhang , Chenxiao Zhang

Stacking non-linear layers allows deep neural networks to model complicated functions, and including residual connections in Transformer layers is beneficial for convergence and performance. However, residual connections may make the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Hongfei Xu , Yang Song , Qiuhui Liu , Josef van Genabith , Deyi Xiong

We report a GPT-based multi-sentence language model for dialogue generation and document understanding. First, we propose a hierarchical GPT which consists of three blocks, i.e., a sentence encoding block, a sentence generating block, and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Jihyeon Roh , Huiseong Gim , Soo-Young Lee

State-of-the-art results on neural machine translation often use attentional sequence-to-sequence models with some form of convolution or recursion. Vaswani et al. (2017) propose a new architecture that avoids recurrence and convolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Karim Ahmed , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Richard Socher

Recent work on non-autoregressive neural machine translation (NAT) aims at improving the efficiency by parallel decoding without sacrificing the quality. However, existing NAT methods are either inferior to Transformer or require multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Lihua Qian , Hao Zhou , Yu Bao , Mingxuan Wang , Lin Qiu , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu , Lei Li

Multi-modal neural machine translation (NMT) aims to translate source sentences into a target language paired with images. However, dominant multi-modal NMT models do not fully exploit fine-grained semantic correspondences between semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Yongjing Yin , Fandong Meng , Jinsong Su , Chulun Zhou , Zhengyuan Yang , Jie Zhou , Jiebo Luo

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieved the state-of-the-art performance in medical image segmentation due to their ability to extract highly complex feature representations. However, it is argued in recent studies that traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Zhendi Gong , Andrew P. French , Guoping Qiu , Xin Chen

Neural machine translation is a recently proposed approach to machine translation. Unlike the traditional statistical machine translation, the neural machine translation aims at building a single neural network that can be jointly tuned to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Dzmitry Bahdanau , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

Transformer is a promising neural network learner, and has achieved great success in various machine learning tasks. Thanks to the recent prevalence of multimodal applications and big data, Transformer-based multimodal learning has become a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Peng Xu , Xiatian Zhu , David A. Clifton

Despite the popularity of transformers in practice, their architectures are empirically designed and neither mathematically justified nor interpretable. Moreover, as indicated by many empirical studies, some components of transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Peng Wang , Yifu Lu , Yaodong Yu , Druv Pai , Qing Qu , Yi Ma

The Transformer architecture has led to significant gains in machine translation. However, most studies focus on only sentence-level translation without considering the context dependency within documents, leading to the inadequacy of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yukun Feng , Feng Li , Ziang Song , Boyuan Zheng , Philipp Koehn

Recently, Transformer model, which has achieved great success in many artificial intelligence fields, has demonstrated its great potential in modeling graph-structured data. Till now, a great variety of Transformers has been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Erxue Min , Runfa Chen , Yatao Bian , Tingyang Xu , Kangfei Zhao , Wenbing Huang , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang , Sophia Ananiadou , Yu Rong

Graph neural networks are powerful architectures for structured datasets. However, current methods struggle to represent long-range dependencies. Scaling the depth or width of GNNs is insufficient to broaden receptive fields as larger GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhanghao Wu , Paras Jain , Matthew A. Wright , Azalia Mirhoseini , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica