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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…

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In this paper, we share our reflections and insights on understanding Transformer architectures through the lens of associative memory--a classic psychological concept inspired by human cognition. We start with the basics of associative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Shu Zhong , Mingyu Xu , Tenglong Ao , Guang Shi

In aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA), many neural models are equipped with an attention mechanism to quantify the contribution of each context word to sentiment prediction. However, such a mechanism suffers from one drawback: only a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Jinsong Su , Jialong Tang , Hui Jiang , Ziyao Lu , Yubin Ge , Linfeng Song , Deyi Xiong , Le Sun , Jiebo Luo

Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) are the state-of-the-art for natural language tasks. Recent work has attempted to decode, by reverse engineering the role of linear layers, the internal mechanisms by which LLMs arrive at their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Mansi Sakarvadia , Arham Khan , Aswathy Ajith , Daniel Grzenda , Nathaniel Hudson , André Bauer , Kyle Chard , Ian Foster

The multi-head self-attention of popular transformer models is widely used within Natural Language Processing (NLP), including for the task of extractive summarization. With the goal of analyzing and pruning the parameter-heavy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Wen Xiao , Patrick Huber , Giuseppe Carenini

In order to maximize the applicability of sentiment analysis results, it is necessary to not only classify the overall sentiment (positive/negative) of a given document but also to identify the main words that contribute to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Gichang Lee , Jaeyun Jeong , Seungwan Seo , CzangYeob Kim , Pilsung Kang

Transformer model has been widely used on machine translation tasks and obtained state-of-the-art results. In this paper, we report an interesting phenomenon in its encoder-decoder multi-head attention: different attention heads of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Zewei Sun , Shujian Huang , Hao-Ran Wei , Xin-yu Dai , Jiajun Chen

The identification and ranking of impacted files within software reposi-tories is a key challenge in change impact analysis. Existing deterministic approaches that combine heuristic signals, semantic similarity measures, and graph-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Pradeep Kumar Sharma , Shantanu Godbole , Sarada Prasad Jena , Hritvik Shrivastava

This study aims to enhance the quality of music generation using Transformers by incorporating meta-information. While Transformer-based approaches are effective at capturing long-term dependencies in musical compositions, the music they…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shinnosuke Taksuka , Hideo Mukai

In this paper, we address a challenging task, synchronous motion captioning, that aim to generate a language description synchronized with human motion sequences. This task pertains to numerous applications, such as aligned sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Karim Radouane , Sylvie Ranwez , Julien Lagarde , Andon Tchechmedjiev

Unneeded elements in the attention's context degrade performance. We introduce Selective Attention, a simple parameter-free change to the standard attention mechanism which reduces attention to unneeded elements. Selective attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yaniv Leviathan , Matan Kalman , Yossi Matias

Transformer models have achieved promising performances in point cloud segmentation. However, most existing attention schemes provide the same feature learning paradigm for all points equally and overlook the enormous difference in size…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Junjie Zhou , Yongping Xiong , Chinwai Chiu , Fangyu Liu , Xiangyang Gong

Attention-based long short-term memory (LSTM) networks have proven to be useful in aspect-level sentiment classification. However, due to the difficulties in annotating aspect-level data, existing public datasets for this task are all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Ruidan He , Wee Sun Lee , Hwee Tou Ng , Daniel Dahlmeier

Transformers have reshaped machine learning by utilizing attention mechanisms to capture complex patterns in large datasets, leading to significant improvements in performance. This success has contributed to the belief that "bigger means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Hemanth Saratchandran , Damien Teney , Simon Lucey

In this research, we investigate techniques to detect hate speech in movies. We introduce a new dataset collected from the subtitles of six movies, where each utterance is annotated either as hate, offensive or normal. We apply transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Niklas von Boguszewski , Sana Moin , Anirban Bhowmick , Seid Muhie Yimam , Chris Biemann

[Purpose] To understand the meaning of a sentence, humans can focus on important words in the sentence, which reflects our eyes staying on each word in different gaze time or times. Thus, some studies utilize eye-tracking values to optimize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Lei Zhao , Yingyi Zhang , Chengzhi Zhang

This paper introduces a novel approach for multimodal sentiment analysis on social media, particularly in the context of natural disasters, where understanding public sentiment is crucial for effective crisis management. Unlike conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Meriem Zerkouk , Miloud Mihoubi , Belkacem Chikhaoui

There has been much recent work on image captioning models that describe the factual aspects of an image. Recently, some models have incorporated non-factual aspects into the captions, such as sentiment or style. However, such models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Mark Dras , Stephen Wan , Cecile Paris

This work involves the usage of various NLP models to predict the winner of a particular judgment by the means of text extraction and summarization from a judgment document. These documents are useful when it comes to legal proceedings. One…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Stanley Kingston , Prassanth , Shrinivas A , Balamurugan MS , Manoj Kumar Rajagopal

Sentiment Analysis (SA) or opinion mining is analysis of emotions and opinions from any kind of text. SA helps in tracking peoples viewpoints and it is an important factor when it comes to social media monitoring product and brand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Gibson Nkhata , Usman Anjum , Justin Zhan