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Vision language tasks, such as answering questions about or generating captions that describe an image, are difficult tasks for computers to perform. A relatively recent body of research has adapted the pretrained transformer architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Clayton Fields , Casey Kennington

Foundation models have received much attention due to their effectiveness across a broad range of downstream applications. Though there is a big convergence in terms of architecture, most pretrained models are typically still developed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yaru Hao , Haoyu Song , Li Dong , Shaohan Huang , Zewen Chi , Wenhui Wang , Shuming Ma , Furu Wei

Large-scale transformer models have shown remarkable performance in language modelling tasks. However, such models feature billions of parameters, leading to difficulties in their deployment and prohibitive training costs from scratch. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Viktoriia Chekalina , Georgii Novikov , Julia Gusak , Ivan Oseledets , Alexander Panchenko

A foundation model like GPT elicits many emergent abilities, owing to the pre-training with broad inclusion of data and the use of the powerful Transformer architecture. While foundation models in natural languages are prevalent, can we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ziyuan Tang , Jie Chen

We investigate the capability of a transformer pretrained on natural language to generalize to other modalities with minimal finetuning -- in particular, without finetuning of the self-attention and feedforward layers of the residual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Kevin Lu , Aditya Grover , Pieter Abbeel , Igor Mordatch

The Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) represents a notable breakthrough in the domain of natural language processing, which is propelling us toward the development of machines that can understand and communicate using language in a…

Pre-trained models learn general representations from large datsets which can be fine-turned for specific tasks to significantly reduce training time. Pre-trained models like generative pretrained transformers (GPT), bidirectional encoder…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Linhan Xia , Yicheng Yang , Ziou Chen , Zheng Yang , Shengxin Zhu

Recurrent Neural Networks were, until recently, one of the best ways to capture the timely dependencies in sequences. However, with the introduction of the Transformer, it has been proven that an architecture with only attention-mechanisms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Radostin Cholakov , Todor Kolev

Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) has recently achieved state-of-the-art performance on a broad range of NLP tasks including sentence classification, machine translation, and question answering. The BERT model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Zhiheng Huang , Peng Xu , Davis Liang , Ajay Mishra , Bing Xiang

Recently, the bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) model has attracted much attention in the field of natural language processing, owing to its high performance in language understanding-related tasks. The BERT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Kazuki Miyazawa , Tatsuya Aoki , Takato Horii , Takayuki Nagai

Transformer-based models have delivered impressive results on many tasks, particularly vision and language tasks. In many model training situations, conventional configurations are typically adopted. For example, we often set the base model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Fuzhao Xue , Jianghai Chen , Aixin Sun , Xiaozhe Ren , Zangwei Zheng , Xiaoxin He , Yongming Chen , Xin Jiang , Yang You

Transformer-based pretrained language models (T-PTLMs) have achieved great success in almost every NLP task. The evolution of these models started with GPT and BERT. These models are built on the top of transformers, self-supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Katikapalli Subramanyam Kalyan , Ajit Rajasekharan , Sivanesan Sangeetha

Transformer-based pre-trained models have gained much advance in recent years, becoming one of the most important backbones in natural language processing. Recent work shows that the attention mechanism inside Transformer may not be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yile Wang , Linyi Yang , Zhiyang Teng , Ming Zhou , Yue Zhang

Foundation models leverage large-scale pretraining to capture extensive knowledge, demonstrating generalization in a wide range of language tasks. By comparison, vision foundation models (VFMs) often exhibit uneven improvements across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Shiqi Huang , Yipei Wang , Natasha Thorley , Alexander Ng , Shaheer Saeed , Mark Emberton , Shonit Punwani , Veeru Kasivisvanathan , Dean Barratt , Daniel Alexander , Yipeng Hu

Transformer-based language models such as BERT have become foundational in NLP, yet their performance degrades in specialized domains like patents, which contain long, technical, and legally structured text. Prior approaches to patent NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Amirhossein Yousefiramandi , Ciaran Cooney

Decision making demands intricate interplay between perception, memory, and reasoning to discern optimal policies. Conventional approaches to decision making face challenges related to low sample efficiency and poor generalization. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Xiaoqian Liu , Xingzhou Lou , Jianbin Jiao , Junge Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) are revolutionizing the generation of human-like text, producing contextually relevant and syntactically correct content. Despite challenges like biases and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Alper Yaman , Jannik Schwab , Christof Nitsche , Abhirup Sinha , Marco Huber

BERT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, is a recently introduced language representation model based upon the transfer learning paradigm. We extend its fine-tuning procedure to address one of its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Raghavendra Pappagari , Piotr Żelasko , Jesús Villalba , Yishay Carmiel , Najim Dehak

In spite of their huge success, transformer models remain difficult to scale in depth. In this work, we develop a unified signal propagation theory and provide formulae that govern the moments of the forward and backward signal through the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Akhil Kedia , Mohd Abbas Zaidi , Sushil Khyalia , Jungho Jung , Harshith Goka , Haejun Lee

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