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Transformer based models are increasingly being used in various domains including recommender systems (RS). Pretrained transformer models such as BERT have shown good performance at language modelling. With the greater ability to model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Uzma Mushtaque

We introduce a new routing algorithm for capsule networks, in which a child capsule is routed to a parent based only on agreement between the parent's state and the child's vote. The new mechanism 1) designs routing via inverted dot-product…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Nitish Srivastava , Hanlin Goh , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Transformers have emerged as a powerful neural network architecture capable of tackling a wide range of learning tasks. In this work, we provide a theoretical analysis of their ability to automatically extract structure from data in an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-29 Rodrigo Maulen-Soto , Pierre Marion , Claire Boyer

Relational reasoning is a central component of generally intelligent systems, enabling robust and data-efficient inductive generalization. Recent empirical evidence shows that many existing neural architectures, including Transformers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Awni Altabaa , John Lafferty

Top-down attention plays a crucial role in the human vision system, wherein the brain initially obtains a rough overview of a scene to discover salient cues (i.e., overview first), followed by a more careful finer-grained examination (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Meng Lou , Yizhou Yu

Attention-based architectures have become ubiquitous in machine learning, yet our understanding of the reasons for their effectiveness remains limited. This work proposes a new way to understand self-attention networks: we show that their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yihe Dong , Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier , Andreas Loukas

While transformers have greatly boosted performance in semantic segmentation, domain adaptive transformers are not yet well explored. We identify that the domain gap can cause discrepancies in self-attention. Due to this gap, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Kaihong Wang , Donghyun Kim , Rogerio Feris , Kate Saenko , Margrit Betke

Learning with few labeled data is a key challenge for visual recognition, as deep neural networks tend to overfit using a few samples only. One of the Few-shot learning methods called metric learning addresses this challenge by first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Li Ke , Meng Pan , Weigao Wen , Dong Li

Attention-based transformers have become the standard architecture in many deep learning fields, primarily due to their ability to model long-range dependencies and handle variable-length input sequences. However, the attention mechanism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Kalle Hilsenbek

Dialogue act recognition is a fundamental task for an intelligent dialogue system. Previous work models the whole dialog to predict dialog acts, which may bring the noise from unrelated sentences. In this work, we design a hierarchical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Zhigang Dai , Jinhua Fu , Qile Zhu , Hengbin Cui , Xiaolong li , Yuan Qi

Attention is a core component of transformer architecture, whether encoder-only, decoder-only, or encoder-decoder model. However, the standard softmax attention often produces noisy probability distribution, which can impair effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dhananjay Ram , Wei Xia , Stefano Soatto

Attention-based neural networks, such as Transformers, have become ubiquitous in numerous applications, including computer vision, natural language processing, and time-series analysis. In all kinds of attention networks, the attention maps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Yujing Wang , Yaming Yang , Zhuo Li , Jiangang Bai , Mingliang Zhang , Xiangtai Li , Jing Yu , Ce Zhang , Gao Huang , Yunhai Tong

This paper tackles the high computational/space complexity associated with Multi-Head Self-Attention (MHSA) in vanilla vision transformers. To this end, we propose Hierarchical MHSA (H-MHSA), a novel approach that computes self-attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yun Liu , Yu-Huan Wu , Guolei Sun , Le Zhang , Ajad Chhatkuli , Luc Van Gool

In this extended abstract, we present an algorithm that learns a similarity measure between documents from the network topology of a structured corpus. We leverage the Scaled Dot-Product Attention, a recently proposed attention mechanism,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Robin Brochier , Adrien Guille , Julien Velcin

Transformers have become one of the dominant architectures in deep learning, particularly as a powerful alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision. However, Transformer training and inference in previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Zizheng Pan , Bohan Zhuang , Haoyu He , Jing Liu , Jianfei Cai

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at relational reasoning but face two persistent challenges: the lack of interpretable attribution for heterogeneous node types, and the computational overhead of message passing over large, noisy graphs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Seungwoo Kum

Exploring contextual information in the local region is important for shape understanding and analysis. Existing studies often employ hand-crafted or explicit ways to encode contextual information of local regions. However, it is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Xinhai Liu , Zhizhong Han , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

The heterogeneous network is a robust data abstraction that can model entities of different types interacting in various ways. Such heterogeneity brings rich semantic information but presents nontrivial challenges in aggregating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Nhat Tran , Jean Gao

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to be state-of-the-art models for visual cortical neurons. Cortical neurons in the primary visual cortex are sensitive to contextual information mediated by extensive horizontal and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Isaac Lin , Tianye Wang , Shang Gao , Shiming Tang , Tai Sing Lee

Transformer-based models have significantly advanced natural language processing and computer vision in recent years. However, due to the irregular and disordered structure of point cloud data, transformer-based models for 3D deep learning…

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