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Style transfer is a problem of rendering image with some content in the style of another image, for example a family photo in the style of a painting of some famous artist. The drawback of classical style transfer algorithm is that it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Alexey Schekalev , Victor Kitov

Textual cues are essential for everyday tasks like buying groceries and using public transport. To develop this assistive technology, we study the TextVQA task, i.e., reasoning about text in images to answer a question. Existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Yash Kant , Dhruv Batra , Peter Anderson , Alex Schwing , Devi Parikh , Jiasen Lu , Harsh Agrawal

Existing attention mechanisms are trained to attend to individual items in a collection (the memory) with a predefined, fixed granularity, e.g., a word token or an image grid. We propose area attention: a way to attend to areas in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Yang Li , Lukasz Kaiser , Samy Bengio , Si Si

Arbitrary style transfer generates an artistic image which combines the structure of a content image and the artistic style of the artwork by using only one trained network. The image representation used in this method contains content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Lizhen Long , Chi-Man Pun

The Transformer architecture, a cornerstone of modern Large Language Models (LLMs), has achieved extraordinary success in sequence modeling, primarily due to its attention mechanism. However, despite its power, the standard attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Zichuan Fu , Wentao Song , Guojing Li , Yejing Wang , Xian Wu , Yimin Deng , Hanyu Yan , Yefeng Zheng , Xiangyu Zhao

Attention regulates information transfer between tokens. For this, query and key vectors are compared, typically in terms of a scalar product, $\mathbf{Q}^T\mathbf{K}$, together with a subsequent softmax normalization. In geometric terms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Claudius Gros

Standard attention scales quadratically with sequence length. Efficient attention methods reduce this O(n^2) cost, but when retrofitted into pretrained models, they often degrade perplexity, downstream accuracy, or both. We introduce Focus,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Hengshuai Yao , Xing Chen , Ahmed Murtadha , Jin Li , Yasin Abbasi Yadkori , Shuai Shao , Changling Liu , Guan Wang , Mingli Yuan , William Chen , Sen Song

Image style transfer has attracted widespread attention in the past few years. Despite its remarkable results, it requires additional style images available as references, making it less flexible and inconvenient. Using text is the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Zhi-Song Liu , Li-Wen Wang , Wan-Chi Siu , Vicky Kalogeiton

Style-conditioned text-to-image (T2I) generation with diffusion models requires both stable character structure and consistent, fine-grained style expression across diverse prompts. Existing approaches either rely on text-only prompting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jingbang Tang

Artistic style transfer aims to transfer the style characteristics of one image onto another image while retaining its content. Existing approaches commonly leverage various normalization techniques, although these face limitations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Aaditya Singh , Shreeshail Hingane , Xinyu Gong , Zhangyang Wang

Recent neural style transfer frameworks have obtained astonishing visual quality and flexibility in Single-style Transfer (SST), but little attention has been paid to Multi-style Transfer (MST) which refers to simultaneously transferring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Zixuan Huang , Jinghuai Zhang , Jing Liao

Style transfer is the process of rendering one image with some content in the style of another image, representing the style. Recent studies of Liu et al. (2017) show that traditional style transfer methods of Gatys et al. (2016) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Victor Kitov , Konstantin Kozlovtsev , Margarita Mishustina

Attention mechanisms have become integral in AI, significantly enhancing model performance and scalability by drawing inspiration from human cognition. Concurrently, the Attention Schema Theory (AST) in cognitive science posits that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Krati Saxena , Federico Jurado Ruiz , Guido Manzi , Dianbo Liu , Alex Lamb

Recent feed-forward neural methods of arbitrary image style transfer mainly utilized encoded feature map upto its second-order statistics, i.e., linearly transformed the encoded feature map of a content image to have the same mean and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Jeong-Sik Lee , Hyun-Chul Choi

Text-driven style transfer aims to merge the style of a reference image with content described by a text prompt. Recent advancements in text-to-image models have improved the nuance of style transformations, yet significant challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Mingkun Lei , Xue Song , Beier Zhu , Hao Wang , Chi Zhang

Transfer learning involves adapting a pre-trained model to novel downstream tasks. However, we observe that current transfer learning methods often fail to focus on task-relevant features. In this work, we explore refocusing model attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Baifeng Shi , Siyu Gai , Trevor Darrell , Xin Wang

Transferring knowledge from prior source tasks in solving a new target task can be useful in several learning applications. The application of transfer poses two serious challenges which have not been adequately addressed. First, the agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Janarthanan Rajendran , Aravind Srinivas , Mitesh M. Khapra , P Prasanna , Balaraman Ravindran

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have revolutionized generative modeling by producing high-fidelity, diverse, and visually realistic images from textual prompts. Despite these advances, existing models struggle with complex prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Eric Hanchen Jiang , Yasi Zhang , Zhi Zhang , Yixin Wan , Andrew Lizarraga , Shufan Li , Ying Nian Wu

In this work, we tackle the challenging problem of arbitrary image style transfer using a novel style feature representation learning method. A suitable style representation, as a key component in image stylization tasks, is essential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yuxin Zhang , Fan Tang , Weiming Dong , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Tong-Yee Lee , Changsheng Xu

Despite the impressive generative capabilities of diffusion models, existing diffusion model-based style transfer methods require inference-stage optimization (e.g. fine-tuning or textual inversion of style) which is time-consuming, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jiwoo Chung , Sangeek Hyun , Jae-Pil Heo