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Self-attention has emerged as a vital component of state-of-the-art sequence-to-sequence models for natural language processing in recent years, brought to the forefront by pre-trained bi-directional Transformer models. Its effectiveness is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Hyoungwook Nam , Seung Byum Seo , Vikram Sharma Mailthody , Noor Michael , Lan Li

In recent times, the research on Large Language Models (LLMs) has grown exponentially, predominantly focusing on models underpinned by the transformer architecture, as established by [1], and further developed through the decoder-only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Sathya Krishnan Suresh , Shunmugapriya P

Recent advancements in attention mechanisms have replaced recurrent neural networks and its variants for machine translation tasks. Transformer using attention mechanism solely achieved state-of-the-art results in sequence modeling. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Prakhar Thapak , Prodip Hore

Transformers have attained outstanding performance across various modalities, owing to their simple but powerful scaled-dot-product (SDP) attention mechanisms. Researchers have attempted to migrate Transformers to graph learning, but most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Liheng Ma , Soumyasundar Pal , Yingxue Zhang , Philip H. S. Torr , Mark Coates

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have long been an architecture of interest for computational models of human sentence processing. The recently introduced Transformer architecture outperforms RNNs on many natural language processing tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Danny Merkx , Stefan L. Frank

This paper proposes PE-GPT, a custom-tailored large language model uniquely adapted for power converter modulation design. By harnessing in-context learning and specialized tiered physics-informed neural networks, PE-GPT guides users…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Fanfan Lin , Junhua Liu , Xinze Li , Shuai Zhao , Bohui Zhao , Hao Ma , Xin Zhang

Large language models exhibit surprising emergent generalization properties, yet also struggle on many simple reasoning tasks such as arithmetic and parity. This raises the question of if and when Transformer models can learn the true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Hattie Zhou , Arwen Bradley , Etai Littwin , Noam Razin , Omid Saremi , Josh Susskind , Samy Bengio , Preetum Nakkiran

The Transformer is a fully attention-based alternative to recurrent networks that has achieved state-of-the-art results across a range of NLP tasks. In this paper, we analyze the structure of attention in a Transformer language model, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Jesse Vig , Yonatan Belinkov

Transformers are emerging as the new workhorse of NLP, showing great success across tasks. Unlike LSTMs, transformers process input sequences entirely through self-attention. Previous work has suggested that the computational capabilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Michael Hahn

Although neural machine translation (NMT) models perform well in the general domain, it remains rather challenging to control their generation behavior to satisfy the requirement of different users. Given the expensive training cost and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yuzhuang Xu , Shuo Wang , Peng Li , Xuebo Liu , Xiaolong Wang , Weidong Liu , Yang Liu

Attention mechanism has become the dominant module in natural language processing models. It is computationally intensive and depends on massive power-hungry multiplications. In this paper, we rethink variants of attention mechanism from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Yu Wan , Baosong Yang , Dayiheng Liu , Rong Xiao , Derek F. Wong , Haibo Zhang , Boxing Chen , Lidia S. Chao

We introduce Transformer Grammars (TGs), a novel class of Transformer language models that combine (i) the expressive power, scalability, and strong performance of Transformers and (ii) recursive syntactic compositions, which here are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Laurent Sartran , Samuel Barrett , Adhiguna Kuncoro , Miloš Stanojević , Phil Blunsom , Chris Dyer

Human memory is fleeting. As words are processed, the exact wordforms that make up incoming sentences are rapidly lost. Cognitive scientists have long believed that this limitation of memory may, paradoxically, help in learning language -…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Abishek Thamma , Micha Heilbron

Transformers have achieved state-of-the-art results across multiple NLP tasks. However, the self-attention mechanism complexity scales quadratically with the sequence length, creating an obstacle for tasks involving long sequences, like in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Belen Alastruey , Javier Ferrando , Gerard I. Gállego , Marta R. Costa-jussà

We propose a novel neural network architecture, the normalized Transformer (nGPT) with representation learning on the hypersphere. In nGPT, all vectors forming the embeddings, MLP, attention matrices and hidden states are unit norm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ilya Loshchilov , Cheng-Ping Hsieh , Simeng Sun , Boris Ginsburg

The powerful modeling capabilities of all-attention-based transformer architectures often cause overfitting and - for natural language processing tasks - lead to an implicitly learned internal language model in the autoregressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Timo Lohrenz , Björn Möller , Zhengyang Li , Tim Fingscheidt

The fixed-size context of Transformer makes GPT models incapable of generating arbitrarily long text. In this paper, we introduce RecurrentGPT, a language-based simulacrum of the recurrence mechanism in RNNs. RecurrentGPT is built upon a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Wangchunshu Zhou , Yuchen Eleanor Jiang , Peng Cui , Tiannan Wang , Zhenxin Xiao , Yifan Hou , Ryan Cotterell , Mrinmaya Sachan

Transformer variants dominate the state-of-the-art in different natural language processing tasks such as translation, reading comprehension and summarization. Our paper is more directed to use general memory slots added to the inputs and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Arij Al Adel

Transformer networks have seen great success in natural language processing and machine vision, where task objectives such as next word prediction and image classification benefit from nuanced context sensitivity across high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yuxuan Li , James L. McClelland

Many advances in Natural Language Processing have been based upon more expressive models for how inputs interact with the context in which they occur. Recurrent networks, which have enjoyed a modicum of success, still lack the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Gábor Melis , Tomáš Kočiský , Phil Blunsom