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In this paper, we propose a new deep learning approach, called neural association model (NAM), for probabilistic reasoning in artificial intelligence. We propose to use neural networks to model association between any two events in a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Quan Liu , Hui Jiang , Andrew Evdokimov , Zhen-Hua Ling , Xiaodan Zhu , Si Wei , Yu Hu

Recently, attention mechanisms have been extensively investigated in computer vision, but few of them show excellent performance on both large and mobile networks. This paper proposes Dual Rank-1 Tensor Attention Module (DRTAM), a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Hanxing Chi , Baihong Lin , Jun Hu , Liang Wang

An intelligent system capable of continual learning is one that can process and extract knowledge from potentially infinitely long streams of pattern vectors. The major challenge that makes crafting such a system difficult is known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Hitesh Vaidya , Travis Desell , Ankur Mali , Alexander Ororbia

Since their introduction the Trasformer architectures emerged as the dominating architectures for both natural language processing and, more recently, computer vision applications. An intrinsic limitation of this family of "fully-attentive"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Carmelo Scribano , Giorgia Franchini , Marco Prato , Marko Bertogna

We propose the Multi-Head Density Adaptive Attention Mechanism (DAAM), a novel probabilistic attention framework that can be used for Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning (PEFT), and the Density Adaptive Transformer (DAT), designed to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Georgios Ioannides , Aman Chadha , Aaron Elkins

Attention mechanisms underpin the computational power of Transformer models, which have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains. Yet understanding and extending the principles underlying self-attention remains a key challenge for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Cheng Kevin Qu , Andrew Ly , Pulin Gong

Attention mechanisms underpin modern deep learning, while the quadratic time and space complexity limit scalability for long sequences. To address this, Quantum Annealing Multi-Head Attention (QAMA) is proposed, a novel drop-in operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Peng Du , Jinjing Shi , Wenxuan Wang , Yin Ma , Kai Wen , Xuelong Li

Deep neural networks have been shown as a class of useful tools for addressing signal recognition issues in recent years, especially for identifying the nonlinear feature structures of signals. However, this power of most deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yihong Dong , Ying Peng , Muqiao Yang , Songtao Lu , Qingjiang Shi

The attention mechanisms have been employed in Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to enhance the feature representation. However, existing attention mechanisms only concentrate on refining the features inside each sample and neglect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Qishang Cheng , Hongliang Li , Qingbo Wu , King Ngi Ngan

Transformer is an attention-based neural network, which consists of two sublayers, namely, Self-Attention Network (SAN) and Feed-Forward Network (FFN). Existing research explores to enhance the two sublayers separately to improve the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Zhihao Fan , Yeyun Gong , Dayiheng Liu , Zhongyu Wei , Siyuan Wang , Jian Jiao , Nan Duan , Ruofei Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Deep learning is attracting significant interest in the neuroimaging community as a means to diagnose psychiatric and neurological disorders from structural magnetic resonance images. However, there is a tendency amongst researchers to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 David Wood , James Cole , Thomas Booth

We introduced a {\it working memory} augmented adaptive controller in our recent work. The controller uses attention to read from and write to the working memory. Attention allows the controller to read specific information that is relevant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Deepan Muthirayan , Scott Nivison , Pramod P. Khargonekar

Transmit antenna muting (TAM) in multiple-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) networks allows reducing the power consumption of the base station (BS) by properly utilizing only a subset of antennas in the BS. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Nuwanthika Rajapaksha , Jafar Mohammadi , Stefan Wesemann , Thorsten Wild , Nandana Rajatheva

Attention is a complex and broad concept, studied across multiple disciplines spanning artificial intelligence, cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, and related fields. Although many of the ideas regarding attention do not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Shriraj P. Sawant , Shruti Singh

Benefiting from the event-driven and sparse spiking characteristics of the brain, spiking neural networks (SNNs) are becoming an energy-efficient alternative to artificial neural networks (ANNs). However, the performance gap between SNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Man Yao , Guangshe Zhao , Hengyu Zhang , Yifan Hu , Lei Deng , Yonghong Tian , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

Modeling long-range dependencies in sequential data remains a central challenge in machine learning. Transformers address this challenge through attention mechanisms, but their quadratic complexity with respect to sequence length limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hoang-Quan Nguyen , Sankalp Pandey , Khoa Luu

Deep neural networks based purely on attention have been successful across several domains, relying on minimal architectural priors from the designer. In Human Action Recognition (HAR), attention mechanisms have been primarily adopted on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Vittorio Mazzia , Simone Angarano , Francesco Salvetti , Federico Angelini , Marcello Chiaberge

We present SAM, a biologically-plausible selective attention-driven modulation approach to enhance classification models in a continual learning setting. Inspired by neurophysiological evidence that the primary visual cortex does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Giovanni Bellitto , Federica Proietto Salanitri , Matteo Pennisi , Matteo Boschini , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara , Simone Palazzo , Concetto Spampinato

Human visual system can selectively attend to parts of a scene for quick perception, a biological mechanism known as Human attention. Inspired by this, recent deep learning models encode attention mechanisms to focus on the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Qiuxia Lai , Salman Khan , Yongwei Nie , Jianbing Shen , Hanqiu Sun , Ling Shao

Sequential recommendation has become increasingly essential in various online services. It aims to model the dynamic preferences of users from their historical interactions and predict their next items. The accumulated user behavior records…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Qiaoyu Tan , Jianwei Zhang , Ninghao Liu , Xiao Huang , Hongxia Yang , Jingren Zhou , Xia Hu