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Resource pooling in ad hoc networks deals with accumulating computing and network resources to implement network control schemes such as routing, congestion, traffic management, and so on. Pooling of resources can be accomplished using the…

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Attention mechanism has become the dominant module in natural language processing models. It is computationally intensive and depends on massive power-hungry multiplications. In this paper, we rethink variants of attention mechanism from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Yu Wan , Baosong Yang , Dayiheng Liu , Rong Xiao , Derek F. Wong , Haibo Zhang , Boxing Chen , Lidia S. Chao

With the increasing complexity and scale of click-through rate (CTR) prediction tasks in online advertising and recommendation systems, accurately estimating the importance of features has become a critical aspect of developing effective…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Hasan Saribas , Cagri Yesil , Serdarcan Dilbaz , Halit Orenbas

In this paper, we present a so-called interlaced sparse self-attention approach to improve the efficiency of the \emph{self-attention} mechanism for semantic segmentation. The main idea is that we factorize the dense affinity matrix as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Lang Huang , Yuhui Yuan , Jianyuan Guo , Chao Zhang , Xilin Chen , Jingdong Wang

Convolutional layers are an integral part of many deep neural network solutions in computer vision. Recent work shows that replacing the standard convolution operation with mechanisms based on self-attention leads to improved performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Souvik Kundu , Hesham Mostafa , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Sairam Sundaresan

Attention mechanism has been regarded as an advanced technique to capture long-range feature interactions and to boost the representation capability for convolutional neural networks. However, we found two ignored problems in current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Zhu Baozhou , Peter Hofstee , Jinho Lee , Zaid Al-Ars

In this paper, we propose Selection and Pooling with Large Language Models (SPILL), an intuitive and domain-adaptive method for intent clustering without fine-tuning. Existing embeddings-based clustering methods rely on a few labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 I-Fan Lin , Faegheh Hasibi , Suzan Verberne

In recent years, there have been significant advancements in applying attention mechanisms to point cloud analysis. However, attention module variants featured in various research papers often operate under diverse settings and tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chengzhi Wu , Kaige Wang , Zeyun Zhong , Hao Fu , Junwei Zheng , Jiaming Zhang , Julius Pfrommer , Jürgen Beyerer

The neural attention mechanism has been incorporated into deep neural networks to achieve state-of-the-art performance in various domains. Most such models use multi-head self-attention which is appealing for the ability to attend to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Shujian Zhang , Xinjie Fan , Huangjie Zheng , Korawat Tanwisuth , Mingyuan Zhou

As fine-tuning becomes impractical at scale, probing is emerging as the preferred evaluation protocol. However, standard linear probing can understate the capability of models whose pre-training optimizes local representations rather than…

Vision Transformer (ViT) extracts the final representation from either class token or an average of all patch tokens, following the architecture of Transformer in Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Byungsoo Ko , Han-Gyu Kim , Byeongho Heo , Sangdoo Yun , Sanghyuk Chun , Geonmo Gu , Wonjae Kim

Visual perception is driven by the focus on relevant aspects in the surrounding world. To transfer this observation to the digital information processing of computers, attention mechanisms have been introduced to highlight salient image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Nils Körber

We address representation learning for large-scale instance-level image retrieval. Apart from backbone, training pipelines and loss functions, popular approaches have focused on different spatial pooling and attention mechanisms, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Chull Hwan Song , Hye Joo Han , Yannis Avrithis

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) effectively analyzes whole slide images but faces overfitting due to attention over-concentration. While existing solutions rely on complex architectural modifications or additional processing steps, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yunlong Zhang , Honglin Li , Yunxuan Sun , Zhongyi Shui , Jingxiong Li , Chenglu Zhu , Lin Yang

Sparse attention methods exploit the inherent sparsity in attention to speed up the prefilling phase of long-context inference, mitigating the quadratic complexity of full attention computation. While existing sparse attention methods rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dan Peng , Zhihui Fu , Zewen Ye , Zhuoran Song , Jun Wang

Pooling layers are essential building blocks of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), to reduce computational overhead and increase the receptive fields of proceeding convolutional operations. Their goal is to produce downsampled volumes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Alexandros Stergiou , Ronald Poppe

Fusing multi-modality information is known to be able to effectively bring significant improvement in video classification. However, the most popular method up to now is still simply fusing each stream's prediction scores at the last stage.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Lu Chi , Guiyu Tian , Yadong Mu , Qi Tian

Attention mechanisms have raised significant interest in the research community, since they promise significant improvements in the performance of neural network architectures. However, in any specific problem, we still lack a principled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Rafael Pedro , Arlindo L. Oliveira

Recognizing less salient features is the key for model compression. However, it has not been investigated in the revolutionary attention mechanisms. In this work, we propose a novel normalization-based attention module (NAM), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Yichao Liu , Zongru Shao , Yueyang Teng , Nico Hoffmann

Attention mechanisms, which enable a neural network to accurately focus on all the relevant elements of the input, have become an essential component to improve the performance of deep neural networks. There are mainly two attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Qing-Long Zhang Yu-Bin Yang