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We present an attention-based ranking framework for learning to order sentences given a paragraph. Our framework is built on a bidirectional sentence encoder and a self-attention based transformer network to obtain an input order invariant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Pawan Kumar , Dhanajit Brahma , Harish Karnick , Piyush Rai

Self-attention has emerged as a core component of modern neural architectures, yet its theoretical underpinnings remain elusive. In this paper, we study self-attention through the lens of interacting entities, ranging from agents in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Muhammed Ustaomeroglu , Guannan Qu

Extracting lane topology from perspective views (PV) is crucial for planning and control in autonomous driving. This approach extracts potential drivable trajectories for self-driving vehicles without relying on high-definition (HD) maps.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yiming Yang , Yueru Luo , Bingkun He , Erlong Li , Zhipeng Cao , Chao Zheng , Shuqi Mei , Zhen Li

Cognition is not passive data accumulation but the active resolution of uncertainty through symmetry breaking. This paper argues that both cognitive evolution and development unfold via sequential symmetry-breaking transitions that disrupt…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-13 Xin Li

A central challenge in continual learning is forgetting, the loss of performance on previously learned tasks induced by sequential adaptation to new ones. While forgetting has been extensively studied empirically, rigorous theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zonghuan Xu , Xingjun Ma

In learning-to-rank for information retrieval, a ranking model is automatically learned from the data and then utilized to rank the sets of retrieved documents. Therefore, an ideal ranking model would be a mapping from a document set to a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Liang Pang , Jun Xu , Qingyao Ai , Yanyan Lan , Xueqi Cheng , Jirong Wen

This paper studies visual search using structured queries. The structure is in the form of a 2D composition that encodes the position and the category of the objects. The transformation of the position and the category of the objects leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Mert Kilickaya , Arnold W. M. Smeulders

Rotation-invariance is a desired property of machine-learning models for medical image analysis and in particular for computational pathology applications. We propose a framework to encode the geometric structure of the special Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Maxime W. Lafarge , Erik J. Bekkers , Josien P. W. Pluim , Remco Duits , Mitko Veta

Biological memory solves a problem that eludes current AI: storing specific episodic facts without corrupting general semantic knowledge. Complementary Learning Systems theory explains this through two subsystems - a fast hippocampal system…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-05 Oliver Zahn , Matt Beton , Simran Chana

Euclidean deep learning is often inadequate for addressing real-world signals where the representation space is irregular and curved with complex topologies. Interpreting the geometric properties of such feature spaces has become paramount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ramzan Basheer , Deepak Mishra

Attention is an increasingly popular mechanism used in a wide range of neural architectures. The mechanism itself has been realized in a variety of formats. However, because of the fast-paced advances in this domain, a systematic overview…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Andrea Galassi , Marco Lippi , Paolo Torroni

In a physical neural system, learning rules must be local both in space and time. In order for learning to occur, non-local information must be communicated to the deep synapses through a communication channel, the deep learning channel. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Pierre Baldi , Peter Sadowski , Zhiqin Lu

Recent works on representation learning for Knowledge Graphs have moved beyond the problem of link prediction, to answering queries of an arbitrary structure. Existing methods are based on ad-hoc mechanisms that require training with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Daniel Daza , Michael Cochez

Incorporating inductive bias by embedding geometric entities (such as rays) as input has proven successful in multi-view learning. However, the methods adopting this technique typically lack equivariance, which is crucial for effective 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yinshuang Xu , Dian Chen , Katherine Liu , Sergey Zakharov , Rares Ambrus , Kostas Daniilidis , Vitor Guizilini

When seeing a new object, humans can immediately recognize it across different retinal locations: we say that the internal object representation is invariant to translation. It is commonly believed that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Valerio Biscione , Jeffrey Bowers

Generating semantic layout from scene graph is a crucial intermediate task connecting text to image. We present a conceptually simple, flexible and general framework using sequence to sequence (seq-to-seq) learning for this task. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Boren Li , Boyu Zhuang , Mingyang Li , Jian Gu

Recently, a variety of new equivariant neural network model architectures have been proposed that generalize better over rotational and reflectional symmetries than standard models. These models are relevant to robotics because many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Dian Wang , Robin Walters , Xupeng Zhu , Robert Platt

Conceptual spaces are geometric representations of conceptual knowledge, in which entities correspond to points, natural properties correspond to convex regions, and the dimensions of the space correspond to salient features. While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Shoaib Jameel , Steven Schockaert

Recent success in training deep neural networks have prompted active investigation into the features learned on their intermediate layers. Such research is difficult because it requires making sense of non-linear computations performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Yixuan Li , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune , Hod Lipson , John Hopcroft

Ever since the successful application of sequence to sequence learning for neural machine translation systems, interest has surged in its applicability towards language generation in other problem domains. Recent work has investigated the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Sharath T. S. , Shubhangi Tandon , Ryan Bauer