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Transformer models cannot easily scale to long sequences due to their O(N^2) time and space complexity. This has led to Transformer variants seeking to lower computational complexity, such as Longformer and Performer. While such models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Guanghui Qin , Yukun Feng , Benjamin Van Durme

Transformers have achieved great success in a wide variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks due to the attention mechanism, which assigns an importance score for every word relative to other words in a sequence. However, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Shrihari Sridharan , Jacob R. Stevens , Kaushik Roy , Anand Raghunathan

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

Supervised Deep-Learning (DL)-based reconstruction algorithms have shown state-of-the-art results for highly-undersampled dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction. However, the requirement of excessive high-quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Jie Feng , Ruimin Feng , Qing Wu , Zhiyong Zhang , Yuyao Zhang , Hongjiang Wei

Image Representation learning via input reconstruction is a common technique in machine learning for generating representations that can be effectively utilized by arbitrary downstream tasks. A well-established approach is using…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Raoof HojatJalali , Edmondo Trentin

There is a growing interest in the ability of neural networks to execute algorithmic tasks (e.g., arithmetic, summary statistics, and sorting). The goal of this work is to better understand the role of attention in Transformers for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Artur Back de Luca , George Giapitzakis , Shenghao Yang , Petar Veličković , Kimon Fountoulakis

In the field of image fusion, promising progress has been made by modeling data from different modalities as linear subspaces. However, in practice, the source images are often located in a non-Euclidean space, where the Euclidean methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Huan Kang , Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tianyang Xu , Rui Wang , Chunyang Cheng , Josef Kittler

The paper introduces a Fuzzy-based Attention (Fuzzy Attention Layer) mechanism, a novel computational approach to enhance the interpretability and efficacy of neural models in psychological research. The proposed Fuzzy Attention Layer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Xiaowei Jiang , Liang Ou , Yanan Chen , Na Ao , Yu-Cheng Chang , Thomas Do , Chin-Teng Lin

An implicit neural representation (INR) is a neural network that approximates a spatiotemporal function. Many memory-intensive visualization tasks, including modern 4D CT scanning methods, represent data natively as INRs. While INRs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Jennifer Zvonek , Andrew Gillette

We propose a new class of linear Transformers called FourierLearner-Transformers (FLTs), which incorporate a wide range of relative positional encoding mechanisms (RPEs). These include regular RPE techniques applied for sequential data, as…

The nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT), a powerful tool in soliton theory and exactly solvable models, is a method for solving integrable partial differential equations governing wave propagation in certain nonlinear media. The NFT…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Mansoor I. Yousefi , Frank R. Kschischang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are composed of neurons that exhibit various behaviors and roles, which become increasingly diversified as models scale. Recent studies have revealed that not all neurons are active across different datasets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Haoyun Xu , Runzhe Zhan , Derek F. Wong , Lidia S. Chao

In this work, we investigate the potential of weights to serve as effective representations, focusing on neural fields. Our key insight is that constraining the optimization space through a pre-trained base model and low-rank adaptation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zhuoqian Yang , Mathieu Salzmann , Sabine Süsstrunk

We introduce a novel generative framework for functions by integrating Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) and Transformer-based hypernetworks into latent variable models. Unlike prior approaches that rely on MLP-based hypernetworks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ignacio Peis , Batuhan Koyuncu , Isabel Valera , Jes Frellsen

The transformer model is known to be computationally demanding, and prohibitively costly for long sequences, as the self-attention module uses a quadratic time and space complexity with respect to sequence length. Many researchers have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ziwei He , Meng Yang , Minwei Feng , Jingcheng Yin , Xinbing Wang , Jingwen Leng , Zhouhan Lin

Neural networks are powerful function estimators, leading to their status as a paradigm of choice for modeling structured data. However, unlike other structured representations that emphasize the modularity of the problem -- e.g., factor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Tsvetomila Mihaylova , Vlad Niculae , André F. T. Martins

Conventional machine learning algorithms have traditionally been designed under the assumption that input data follows a vector-based format, with an emphasis on vector-centric paradigms. However, as the demand for tasks involving set-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Masanari Kimura , Ryotaro Shimizu , Yuki Hirakawa , Ryosuke Goto , Yuki Saito

Transformers, and the attention mechanism in particular, have become ubiquitous in machine learning. Their success in modeling nonlocal, long-range correlations has led to their widespread adoption in natural language processing, computer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Edoardo Calvello , Nikola B. Kovachki , Matthew E. Levine , Andrew M. Stuart

In this work we propose a HyperTransformer, a Transformer-based model for supervised and semi-supervised few-shot learning that generates weights of a convolutional neural network (CNN) directly from support samples. Since the dependence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Andrey Zhmoginov , Mark Sandler , Max Vladymyrov

In this work we provide new insights into the transformer architecture, and in particular, its best-known variant, BERT. First, we propose a method to measure the degree of non-linearity of different elements of transformers. Next, we focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Sumu Zhao , Damian Pascual , Gino Brunner , Roger Wattenhofer