English
Related papers

Related papers: Neural Attention Memory

200 papers

In this paper, we propose and investigate a novel memory architecture for neural networks called Hierarchical Attentive Memory (HAM). It is based on a binary tree with leaves corresponding to memory cells. This allows HAM to perform memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Marcin Andrychowicz , Karol Kurach

Memory-augmented neural networks (MANNs) refer to a class of neural network models equipped with external memory (such as neural Turing machines and memory networks). These neural networks outperform conventional recurrent neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Seongsik Park , Seijoon Kim , Seil Lee , Ho Bae , Sungroh Yoon

Neural networks augmented with external memory have the ability to learn algorithmic solutions to complex tasks. These models appear promising for applications such as language modeling and machine translation. However, they scale poorly in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Jack W Rae , Jonathan J Hunt , Tim Harley , Ivo Danihelka , Andrew Senior , Greg Wayne , Alex Graves , Timothy P Lillicrap

Intelligence necessitates memory. Without memory, humans fail to perform various nontrivial tasks such as reading novels, playing games or solving maths. As the ultimate goal of machine learning is to derive intelligent systems that learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Hung Le

We present an attention-based modular neural framework for computer vision. The framework uses a soft attention mechanism allowing models to be trained with gradient descent. It consists of three modules: a recurrent attention module…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Vincent Michalski , Roland Memisevic

In this study, we propose a novel adaptive control architecture, which provides dramatically better transient response performance compared to conventional adaptive control methods. What makes this architecture unique is the synergistic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Emirhan Inanc , Yigit Gurses , Abdullah Habboush , Yildiray Yildiz , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

Designing effective architectures is one of the key factors behind the success of deep neural networks. Existing deep architectures are either manually designed or automatically searched by some Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yong Guo , Yin Zheng , Mingkui Tan , Qi Chen , Jian Chen , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang

The attention mechanism has been proven effective on various visual tasks in recent years. In the semantic segmentation task, the attention mechanism is applied in various methods, including the case of both Convolution Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Zheng Yuan , Jie Zhang , Yude Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Attention is an important cognition process of humans, which helps humans concentrate on critical information during their perception and learning. However, although many machine learning models can remember information of data, they have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Guoqiang Zhong , Xin Lin , Kang Chen , Qingyang Li , Kaizhu Huang

Recent work has seen the development of general purpose neural architectures that can be trained to perform tasks across diverse data modalities. General purpose models typically make few assumptions about the underlying data-structure and…

Deep learning typically requires training a very capable architecture using large datasets. However, many important learning problems demand an ability to draw valid inferences from small size datasets, and such problems pose a particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Dawit Mureja , Hyunsin Park , Chang D. Yoo

Transformers have become the de facto standard for a wide range of tasks, from image classification to physics simulations. Despite their impressive performance, the quadratic complexity of standard Transformers in both memory and time with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Alex Colagrande , Paul Caillon , Eva Feillet , Alexandre Allauzen

Long-context understanding is crucial for many NLP applications, yet transformers struggle with efficiency due to the quadratic complexity of self-attention. Sparse attention methods alleviate this cost but often impose static, predefined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Hanzhi Zhang , Heng Fan , Kewei Sha , Yan Huang , Yunhe Feng

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are one of the most highlighted methods in machine learning. However, as DNNs are black-box models, they lack explanatory power for their predictions. Recently, neural additive models (NAMs) have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Wonkeun Jo , Dongil Kim

Deformable Attention Transformers (DAT) have shown remarkable performance in computer vision tasks by adaptively focusing on informative image regions. However, their data-dependent sampling mechanism introduces irregular memory access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Wendong Mao , Mingfan Zhao , Jianfeng Guan , Qiwei Dong , Zhongfeng Wang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a popular tool for automatically generating Neural Network (NN) architectures. In early NAS works, these tools typically optimized NN architectures for a single metric, such as accuracy. However, in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Emil Njor , Jan Madsen , Xenofon Fafoutis

Transformer-based models are popularly used in natural language processing (NLP). Its core component, self-attention, has aroused widespread interest. To understand the self-attention mechanism, a direct method is to visualize the attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Han Shi , Jiahui Gao , Xiaozhe Ren , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang , Zhenguo Li , James T. Kwok

The key to a Transformer model is the self-attention mechanism, which allows the model to analyze an entire sequence in a computationally efficient manner. Recent work has suggested the possibility that general attention mechanisms used by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Thomas Dowdell , Hongyu Zhang

Transformer models typically calculate attention matrices using dot products, which have limitations when capturing nonlinear relationships between embedding vectors. We propose Neural Attention, a technique that replaces dot products with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Andrew DiGiugno , Ausif Mahmood

Recently, deep convolutional neural network (CNN) have been widely used in image restoration and obtained great success. However, most of existing methods are limited to local receptive field and equal treatment of different types of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Yucheng Hang , Qingmin Liao , Wenming Yang , Yupeng Chen , Jie Zhou