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In recent years, the Transformer architecture has proven to be very successful in sequence processing, but its application to other data structures, such as graphs, has remained limited due to the difficulty of properly defining positions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Devin Kreuzer , Dominique Beaini , William L. Hamilton , Vincent Létourneau , Prudencio Tossou

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have been shown to enhance visual recognition through modeling long-range dependencies with multi-head self-attention (MHSA), which is typically formulated as Query-Key-Value computation. However, the attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Chongjian Ge , Xiaohan Ding , Zhan Tong , Li Yuan , Jiangliu Wang , Yibing Song , Ping Luo

This paper presents a novel transformer architecture for graph representation learning. The core insight of our method is to fully consider the information propagation among nodes and edges in a graph when building the attention module in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhe Chen , Hao Tan , Tao Wang , Tianrun Shen , Tong Lu , Qiuying Peng , Cheng Cheng , Yue Qi

Transformers are increasingly dominating multi-modal reasoning tasks, such as visual question answering, achieving state-of-the-art results thanks to their ability to contextualize information using the self-attention and co-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Hila Chefer , Shir Gur , Lior Wolf

Transformer-based pre-trained models, such as BERT, have shown extraordinary success in achieving state-of-the-art results in many natural language processing applications. However, deploying these models can be prohibitively costly, as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jing Zhao , Yifan Wang , Junwei Bao , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He

Self-attention (SA) network has shown profound value in image captioning. In this paper, we improve SA from two aspects to promote the performance of image captioning. First, we propose Normalized Self-Attention (NSA), a reparameterization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Longteng Guo , Jing Liu , Xinxin Zhu , Peng Yao , Shichen Lu , Hanqing Lu

Self-attention mechanisms have made striking state-of-the-art (SOTA) progress in various sequence learning tasks, standing on the multi-headed dot product attention by attending to all the global contexts at different locations. Through a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Yekun Chai , Shuo Jin , Xinwen Hou

Mechanisms for encoding positional information are central for transformer-based language models. In this paper, we analyze the position embeddings of existing language models, finding strong evidence of translation invariance, both for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Ulme Wennberg , Gustav Eje Henter

The self-attention mechanism has been a key factor in the advancement of vision Transformers. However, its quadratic complexity imposes a heavy computational burden in high-resolution scenarios, restricting the practical application.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Dongchen Han , Tianyu Li , Ziyi Wang , Gao Huang

Neural attention, especially the self-attention made popular by the Transformer, has become the workhorse of state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models. Very recent work suggests that the self-attention in the Transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Zhengxuan Wu , Thanh-Son Nguyen , Desmond C. Ong

The incredible success of transformers on sequence modeling tasks can be largely attributed to the self-attention mechanism, which allows information to be transferred between different parts of a sequence. Self-attention allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Eshaan Nichani , Alex Damian , Jason D. Lee

One of the emerging techniques in node classification in heterogeneous graphs is to restrict message aggregation to pre-defined, semantically meaningful structures called metapaths. This work is the first attempt to incorporate attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Calder Katyal

Graph Attention Networks (GATs) have been intensively studied and widely used in graph data learning tasks. Existing GATs generally adopt the self-attention mechanism to conduct graph edge attention learning, requiring expensive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Beibei Wang , Bo Jiang

Self-attention is an attention mechanism that learns a representation by relating different positions in the sequence. The transformer, which is a sequence model solely based on self-attention, and its variants achieved state-of-the-art…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Minz Won , Sanghyuk Chun , Xavier Serra

Scene Graph Generation, which generally follows a regular encoder-decoder pipeline, aims to first encode the visual contents within the given image and then parse them into a compact summary graph. Existing SGG approaches generally not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Xingning Dong , Tian Gan , Xuemeng Song , Jianlong Wu , Yuan Cheng , Liqiang Nie

We show that viewing graphs as sets of node features and incorporating structural and positional information into a transformer architecture is able to outperform representations learned with classical graph neural networks (GNNs). Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Grégoire Mialon , Dexiong Chen , Margot Selosse , Julien Mairal

Accurate segmentation of organs or lesions from medical images is crucial for reliable diagnosis of diseases and organ morphometry. In recent years, convolutional encoder-decoder solutions have achieved substantial progress in the field of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Bingzhi Chen , Yishu Liu , Zheng Zhang , Guangming Lu , Adams Wai Kin Kong

Multi-headed Attention's (MHA) quadratic compute and linearly growing KV-cache make long-context transformers expensive to train and serve. Prior works such as Grouped Query Attention (GQA) and Multi-Latent Attention (MLA) shrink the cache,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Tomas Figliolia , Nicholas Alonso , Rishi Iyer , Quentin Anthony , Beren Millidge

In recent years, transformer structures have been widely applied in image captioning with impressive performance. For good captioning results, the geometry and position relations of different visual objects are often thought of as crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Chi Wang , Yulin Shen , Luping Ji